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SEPT. 16,1942
VOL. 1, NO. 14
WEEKLY
By the men. .for the
men in the service
' THE ARMY NEWSPAPER

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GUN WOMAN
Mrs. Mary Fultz Bres a SO cali-
bre machine gun at Aberdeen
(Md.) Proving Groand. An eject-
ed cartridge has been caught in
mid-air by the photographer.
For a story on women behind
the guns, turn to page 8.
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Rommel Didn 't Gef To Cairo

The key may still be in the desert. Egypt leads to the Middle Afnka Korps was Hned up between
East, and the Middle East leads to India. In the ageless Egyptian El Himeimat and Ruweisat Ridge,
wastes, where American troops are meeting Germans for the first 10 miles to the north. By now any-
one could see through Rommel's in-
time in this war, Erwin von fiommel, field marshal of Hitler's Afrika
tentions. He was going to try to
Korps, is making his plans, bending over maps with his sunburned force the southern end of the British
staff. For the moment the cards are in his hand, but he is finding line, break through to the rolling
them hard to play. . . . desert beyond, and outflank the
.strong British position in the north
It was established beyond much around El Alamein. His strength
guns. Like the efforts of all German
ballerinas, it was just a little heavy.
At 5 P.M. Rommel, despairing of
other tactics, sent over wave after
wave of Mark Ills and Mark IVs,
head-on into British positions. It
was during this action that Ameri-
can tanks got into the battle. Fif-
teen U.S. crews—92 men and 6 of-
ficers—manning General Grants and

T HE sloppy field marshal who was

visiting the forward German po-
sitions on the El Alamein front
passed out the last of the cigarettes
doubt that Rommel had deployed the
whole of his famed Afrika Korps for
the action. It was established beyond
consisted of two divisions—the 15th
and the 21st—of 17,000 men and 200
tanks each, the 90th Light Motor-
General Lees, sat tight, waiting. Sgt.
James Patano, of Chicago, who was
there, summed up the action suc-
he was carrying. He looked around any doubt that in this battle he had ized Division of 14,000 men, and the cinctly. "Every gunner had his finger
at the bronzed, easy-moving men of lost over 100 tanks, hundreds of 164th Division of 17,000 men. on the trigger," he said, "and we
the Afrika Korps who stood before smaller vehicles, scores of much- All Monday was spent in jockey- just waited for what seemed hours
him. "Well, boys," he said, "we're off needed planes, and many of his fa- ing for positions. British artillery while the enemy kept coming closer
to Cairo." mous 88-millimeter guns. boomed out. Rommel's forces were and closer. Then finally our com-
It was late August, and the field Rommel had hoped to crash well-dispersed, however, and little mander announced very calmly,
marshal was Erwin von Rommel, the through to the Nile Valley. He had damage was done. Stukas came over •You may fire now.' After a short
Fox of the Desert. His optimistic said so, and by his admission he had and tried to knock out the British time, during which the air was
statement was reported by one of his proved it was no "reconnaissance in 25-pounders and the new 4.5-inch filled with shells and shrapnel, the
own solders who was captured by force." A slightly paunchy Hoosier howitzers that were whaling away Jerries turned around and beat it."
the British several days after the with a mid-western drawl, whose at the panzers. Two Stuka forma- In one sector four American tanks
tracks of German tanks once more name was Wendell Willkie, witness- tions were broken up by RAF fight- accounted for six Mark IVs, without
began churning toward the ancient, ed the engagement as the guest of ers; six Nazi bombers crashed thun- getting a scratch themselves. In fact,
British-held cities of Egypt. the British High Command. Willkie, derously into the minefield, the noise there was not one casualty among
The field marshal didn't get to an old artilleryman, knew what was of their impact heard even above the U.S. tank personnel during the
Cairo. In fact, he got only eight milesgoing on. "If there are many more the rumble of the guns. As darkness entire battle. The more numerous
through a British minefield before such reconnaissances in force," he came down on Monday night de- British accounted for many more
circumsfances quite out of the hands said, "there won't be any Germany tachments of the British Imperial tanks.
of the Fuehrer sent him back the left." 8th Army made three raids into
enemy territory. Aussies took 100 Nazi Losses l a r g e
way he came. The circumstances The battle started shortly before After this one great foray the rest
were British. A cautious British midnight on Sunday, August 30. Germans prisoner. South Africans
came back with 12. of the battle was anti-climactic,
GHQ, remembering the many times when Italian troops carried out two though still important. British artil-
in the past that Rommel had been disinterested raids—one against the Allies Rule Skies lery kept slugging away. Allied
"defeated," only to wiggle his way Australians holding the Hill of Jesus With sunrise on Tuesday, artillery bombers came over in bigger, more
back to victory, made no sweeping on the north end of the line, and an- and plane activity became intensi- frequent waves. As the pressure in-
claims. Perhaps, after all, GHQ other against West Yorkshire troops fied. The 12th and 98th Bombard- creased, Rommel began to retire
thought, this had not been the big holding the center. Neither raid got ment Groups and the 57th Fighter little by little. As he retreated he
German push; Rommel, one knew, if anywhere. Group of the U.S. Army Air Force, took a steady pounding. By Friday
one had been in contact with him Moving Up by Moonlight all aching for action flew with Brit- the British could announce that the
before, was a pretty slippery chap. At 2 A.M. that night a bright ish and South African squadrons in Germans had definitely lost the ini-
Brown Desolation moon was casting faint, fantastic some 200 separate sorties over the tiative; by Sunday Rommel was
Axis propagandists decided—after shadows along the desert, and be- front. The B-25s and A-20 Boston back where he had started.
eight days of fighting—to call the af- neath its soft rays all-German de- bombers went particularly after the Nazi losses had, indeed, been
fair a mere "reconnaissance in tachments began to move on El Hi- "soft-skinned" vehicles—the supply large. Stretching clear to the horizon
force." Axis propagandists, though, meimat, a 200-foot hill eight miles and ammunition trucks which Rom- of that desolate plateau the still-
know when to call a spade a shovel. from the rim of Quattara. As the • mel had moved up back of the line. vigilant British could see burned-
No one was exactly sure, to begin moon sank and the desert cooled the Dozens of them went up in flames, out tanks, wrecked cars, destroyed
with, whether it was a big battle or Germans picked their way through and Allied planes ruled the skies. trucks and crashed planes. They
a minor engagement, but as more re- the minefields that formed a sort of Rommel tried a cute stratagem were the mute tokens of a battle
turns came in it began to appear' No-man's Land between the forces. that Tuesday morning. Nazi tanks that had saved Egypt and the Mid-
more and more certain that one of Now and then the night would began to cavort like ballerinas in dle East -.for the United Nations.
the decisive engagements of World mushroom into flame as an unseen front of the British lines. The Brit- Rommel was still a long way from
War II had been fought on a 25-mile mine was struck by a hapless tank. ish refused to play; they recognized Cairo, and the cigarettes he had
stretch of brown desolation between But the Nazis moved on into the this as an attempt to lure their own optimistically given out were now
the Mediterrapean and the salt bogs dawn and the rising sun. tanks into a nest of cleverly con- dead ashes on the sands of Egypt,
of the Quattara Depression. On Monday at 10 A.M. the entire cealed and deadly German anti-tank where armies had tried before.

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Poor Nazis
^their Tale of Woe
Wi^hiti^r Regrets He Can't Stop RAF Bombings,
'•iC^-. j i % While Capture of Stalingrad Presents
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NE year ago, in a bombastic moment at
O the opening of the annual Nazi "Winter
Help" campaign, Adolf Hitler shouted
triumphantly:
"Soviet Russia already is broken and will never
rise again!"
Last week Hitler opened another Winter Help
campaign, but this time his mood was different,
his tune had changed. Instead of shouting his
words to a rowdy, stamping Nazi audience at
Berlin's Sportspalast. the Fuehrer's speech was
read by an anonymous voice over the German
radio. Instead of announcing big. resounding vic-
tories, or even predicting them, the Nazi leader
spoke of "unimaginable privations," of "deep,
heavy sacrifices," of "struggles without prece-
dent." Instead of claiming that Russia was de-
feated, Hitler could only warn his people to ex-
pect another hard winter fighting the Red Army.
As the Reichsfuehrcr spoke. Nazi legions were
fighting in Stalingrad's outskirts, had climbed the
high passes of the Caucasus and were operating
in force in Egypt, The Germans were still on the
offensive; off-hand it might even seem that Adolf
Hitler could justifiably do a little boasting. But
such is the mood of Hitler's Germany today that
any announcement short of a total victory ending
the war would not impress the German public.
The Truth Begins to Dawn
Every reliable scrap of news brought from in-
side Germany these days points to an ever-
increasing war weariness, an ever-deepening
cynicism on the part of the German people. Nazi
internal propaganda, heretofore so boastful and
cocksure, has backfired. To have advertised the
Dive-bombed supply train in Russia.
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DiflFicofties/'
Russian victories before- they happened provi'd
to be a colossal blundei- in the face of continu(^d
arrivals of German dead and wounded from the
eastern front. The British who were so decisively
beaten at Dunkirk have returned to pound Ger-
man cities ceaselessly from the air these late
summer and early fall nights.
The Wehrmacht is far from beaten. Nor are
the German people ready for internal revolution.
They fear the consequences of defeat too much
for that. But there is convincing evidence that
with a considerable segment of the German pop-
ulation disillusionment has already set in. New
victories can only mean more enemies, and new
campaigns must only call for more fearful sacri-
fices.
Pattern of Battle
Instead of pooh-poohing British and Russian
strength, the Nazis have begun to inject a note
of realism here and there. As Field Marshal von
Bock drove his men relentlessly on, n( arei- and
nearer to Stalingrad, the Russians, soldiers and
civilians alike, gave everything they had to make
this city on the Volga the tombstone of Nazi east-
ward ambitions.
Each side in this battle deployed well over
300.000 men. with the Nazis generally outnum-
bering the Russians. The Germans concentrated
well over 1,000 planes of all types on the Stalin-
grad front—a number the Russians simply could
not match. To the Stukas was assigned most of
the dirty work, but for the first time the Nazis
also used fighters to work in collaboration with
tanks. The Nazis had undoubted aerial superi-
oritv over the area, but the Red Air Force was
East-west bomb zones. If these 33 cities were bombed
far from knocked out. The Russians, for their
part, relied mainly on Stormovik dive and attack
bombers.
The Russian defense was organized in depth.
Artillery was mainly used for anti-tank purposes.
There were signs that the Russians were short
on ai'mored vehicles to fight the German tank,s.
Evei'y gun emplacement had at least three re-
serve positions. The approaches to the city were
all heavily mined. A maze of fortified trenches
half-filled the city. Every house and building in
Stalingrad itself was fortified, even as the Rus-
sians disniantled the machinery of the city's huge
tank factory and moved it eastward to safety.
In face of such stubborn defense, the Germans
admitted "fantastic difficulties" in taking the city
and there was a warning not to expect Stalin-
grad's fall overnight. "The battle of Stalingrad
is destined to count among the most colossal and
stubborn in military history," alibied one Nazi
newspaper, "The prize for which the Germans
are contending would mean a terrific loss to the
Soviet, Bolshevism, in all its tenacity and mali-
ciousness, realizes this and is now concentrating
on defending this one point alone."
Problems on Wheels
The Allies continued with their non-stop aerial
offensive over Germany, concentrating for the
most part on transpoi'tation centers. The pattern
of this continuous, 24-hour-a-day raiding became
most distinct as night after night, in communique
after communique, mention was made of the
bombing of locomotive works, rail-Vay junctions,
repair shops, of trains in motion. This aerial
"second front" that British. American, Dutch.
Czech, and Russian airmen were establishing
over Hitler's Reich was a methodical attack on
Germany's system of railroads and canals.
A transport crisis was largely responsible for
Germany's internal breakdown in World War I.
Germany's 50 large cities were on the brink of
starvation in 1918 not only because there was
little food in the Empire but also because there
were too few freight cars in which to bring that
food to the populated centers. Little has been
done since to improve German rolling stock. The
Nazis have concentrated instead on guns.
Military ti-affic in this war is on a scale never
imagined in the last. Coal and oil must be dis-
tributed from one end of Europe to the other in
freight cars. The Germans have agreed to ship
1,000.000 tons of coal monthly to Italy, and all
must go over railroads. French factories are now
being moved by rail toward the east, at the same
time that entire indu.stries from bombed-out cities
of the Rhineland are being transferred to sub-
jugated areas of Poland and Czechoslovakia. All
this means an additional strain on German rail-
roads.
Red Air Force Joins Party
The RAF has thus already caused a considcr-
FRANK BKANO
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able eastern migralion of German industry. Now
a new note has been added to these bombings.
The Russians are -hitting Germany from the air.
They have begun to bomb eastern Europe. At
first the Nazis called the Russian raids mere
"nuisance affairs." Now they were less scornful.
In the west, night afte;: night, the names of
Hanover, Duisberg, Coblenz, Flensburg, Kassel,
Saarbrucken, Karlsruhe, Nuremberg and other
cities appear in RAF communiques. In the east,
the Red Air Force, in its nightly summary, men-
tions Breslau, Lodz, Stettin, Koenigsberg, War-
saw. Recently Budapest, Hungary's capital, was
added to this list, proving that the Nazi stooges
can expect no mercy either.
Allied war economists figure that German in-
dustries are concentrated in the 33 cities shown
in the accompanying map, most of which are re-
ceiving frequent RAF or Red Air Force visits. If
these cities could be bombed out, the economists
believe, Germany's war supplies would be hope-
lessly damaged.
Take It and Like If
That these mighty east-west raids are having
their psychological as well as physical effect in-
side Germany can no longer be kept a secret even
by the Nazis. Minister of Propaganda Goebbels
recently granted that German cities were suf-
fering from "deep and bitter wounds." Later,
Gen. Quade, spokesman for the German air force,
had. to admit in a radio speech that the Luftwaffe,
which used to reign supreme over western Eu-
rope, was not strong enough to fight both in west
and east at the same time.
"We must provide at all costs a bigger air force
in Russia," he consoled. "We cannot be strong
enough there. Those areas which are subjected
to taeavy bombing by the RAF should remember
that they give their life for final victory. The
civilians suffer in the interests of the community.
The morale of the people in the bombed areas is
excellent, the more so because these people know
that in a long war the strategical situation will
change. When we are finished in the east, thou-
sands of bombers will be freed for operations
over Britain."
More to the point, Hitler announced the ap-
pointment of a new air raids precaution chief for
all Germany and occupied areas.
A GLAMOUR BOY AND A PRUSSIAN GUIDE NAZI DESTINY IN THE FIELD
If Adolf Hitler had reached blindly Into
some magical g r a b - b a g , he could not have
pulled out t w o men more completely difFerent
than Field Marshals Erwin von Rommel and
Fedor von Bock to command his N a z i armies
on two bloody fronts.
ROMMEL, commander of the Afrika Korps in
Egypt, is the glamour boy of the Wehrmacht.
Chubby cheeked and sloppy even in the flashy
dress of a Nazi general officer, he loves publicity.
He makes radio speeches from the battlefield in
which he admits his successes are "spectacular."
He scurries around making pictures of his bat-
tles. He sometimes lectures British prisoners on
the mistakes they made in combat.
BOCK, commander of the southern forces in
Russia from Stalingrad to the Caucasus, is thin,
immaculate, hard and cold. He despises anything
civilian—including having his picture in the
papers—and he wears his uniform with a Prus-
sian exactness. He never unbends, not even to
high Nazis. To him "women are not important."
ROMMEL was born in light-hearted, gay Bava-
ria, in 1900, the son of a school teacher. Bock was
born in the stiffest of Prussian homes, in 1880,
the son of a general of ,the Imperial Army. Bock
started to military school when he was 10 years
old; Romhriel was in his late teens before he
thought it would be nice to be a big military man.
BOCK could not conceivably i?e a politician. He
cares nothing for the Nazi party. He is, if any-
thing, a HohenzoUern sympathizer, having been
a close friend of the Crown Prince. Another
friend, General von Schleicher, was assassinated
in 1934 by the Nazis.
ROMMEL, on the other hand, got in on the
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President, Prime Minister Tell the World . . .
Hardly more than ?2 hours apart, President Roosevelt addressed the
with an "offensive-minded" report on the conduct of the v/ar and Prime
ister Churchill spoke before Parliament
governmental heads of two of the most powerful
of past action and future determinations
are excerpts, containing significant phrases which express the confidence
the decisions of the leaders of the United States and Great
ROOSEVELT
Russia: Hitler has been unable to destroy
a single Russian army; and this . . . is his
main objective. . . . In spite of any setbacks.
Russia will hold out. . ,
Pacific: We must not overrate the impor-
tance of our successes in the Solomon islands,
though we may be proud of the skill with
which these local operations were conducted.
At the same time, we need not underrate the
significance of our victory at Midway. There
we stopped the major Japanese offensive.
The Middle East: The Axis powers are
fighting to gain control of the area, dominate
the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, and
gain contact with the Japanese Navy. The
battle in the Middle East is now joined. . . .
We are hopeful of the outcome.
Europe: Here the aim is an offensive
against Germany. There are at least a dozen
different points at which attacks can be
launched. . . . The power of Germany must
be broken on the battlefields of Europe.
General: Certain vital military decisions
have been made. . . . I can say now that all
of these decisions are directed toward the of-
fensive. . . .
We glory in the individual exploits of our
soldiers, our sailors, our marines, our mer-
chant seamen. . . .
Battles are not won by soldiers or sailors
who think first of their own personal
safety. . . .
Erwin von Rommel
ground floor with the F u e h r e r . He was a big
shot in the Storm Troopers during the early
days, later headed the SS and acted as Hitler's
personal bodyguard. He was the fair-haired
boy long before the o u t b r e a k of open war.
BOCK rose slowly to his generalship; Rommel
got there practically overnight. Bock was made
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nation
Min-
in a similar address. Thus from the
United Nations came messages
in the war against the Axis. Below
and
Britain:
CHURCHILL
Russia: The Russians don't think that we
or the Americans have done enough so far
to take the weight off them. . . . Mr. Harri-
man (U. S. lend-lease expediter) and m y -
self made Mr. Stalin feel confident in our
loyal resolve to come to their aid as quickly
as possible and without regard to losses or
sacrifices involved.
Atlantic: Our warfare on enemy subma-
rines is more successful than at any former
period of the war. . . . Our losses are still
most heavy, but production of new mer-
chantmen by the United Nations has defi-
nitely crossed and maintained itself on a new
graph above the line of sinkings.
Europe: The enemy can see at our ports
many signs of movements which we are un-
able to conceal. He is also aware of the
steady and rapid influx into these islands of
United States divisions and other troops. But
what he doesn't know is how, when and
where, or with what force and in what fash-
ion he will be smitten. . . . The Dieppe raid
was such a hard and savage clash as is likely
to become increasingly numerous. . . . I re-
gard the Dieppe assault an indispensable
preliminary to full scale operations. . . .
Middle East: The spirit of the troops was
admirable, but it was clear that drastic
changes were required in the high command,
that the army must have a new start and a
new leader. . . . I feel we've now got a team
well adapted to our needs and the finest at
our disposal. .
a major general in 1929, while Rommel was still
a colonel during the Polish campaign in 1939.
Now Rommel ranks Bock, although they both
hold the title of Field Marshal General.
BOCK's actual battle experience far exceeds
Rommel's. He commanded Nazi troops which in-
vadecj Austria in 1938, the northern army in Po-
land in '39, the right wing of the invasion through
the Low Countries and France in '40, and the
central armies in Russia last year.
ROMMEL left a desk job in the Nazi War Col-
lege to command the German tank outfits which
overran France. Early in 1941 he went to Africa.
While Bock dislikes nobody in particular and
everybody in general, Rommel has one special
grudge. During World War I he was captured by
the Italians in northern Italy and, although he
managed to escape shortly afterwards, he is still
not reconciled to the fact that the Ities are on
his side now. The Ities under his command are
not reconciled to it either; Rommel never misses
a chance to take a crack at them or leave some
particularly dirty work in their hands.
In their tactics and strategy the two are utterly
alike. Rommel, geared to war in the desert, is a
shifty fighter, fox-like, wily, unpredictable. Bock,
always the Prussian, is master of the steamroller
tactics which have piled German dead high in
Fedor von Bock 15 months of fighting against the Red Army.
Rommel commands a force of 140,000 men.
Bock is in command of a million or more.
Both Bock and Rommel have their own par-
ticular way of personally rewarding soldiers.
Bock draws pictures and passes them out to his
favorite officers. Rommel strikes his famous war-
rior pose and allows enlisted men to take pictures
of him.
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IN CARIBBEAN area, a machine gun squad of jungle fighters is on the
alert during maneuvers that keep our men Down South in top shape.
Yanks at Home and Abroad
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Silk Stocking Line Goes Over
Big For Dogface Wolves Down Under
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA—It's so good to get
off a convoy that a man can be considered slight-
ly giddy during his first couple of weeks here.
He reverts to normal only by degrees. I am hav-
mg a harder time getting back to normal than
most, as everyone on my troopship was punchy,
loo. Our mess sergeant put up a little sign, r e -
garding the hardboiled eggs we got for breakfast.
"If you can't eat them," the sign read, "just put
them in the bowl and we'll make egg salad."
Things like that can unbalance a man.
Australian women, I am happy to report, are
Yank-happy, and next to Yanks they like silk
stockings which are as rare as days in June here.
One enterprising corporal from Pittsburgh had
the dolls nuts about him for awhile because, as
he told them, he expected a shipment of stock-
ings from home. This information was worth any
number of moonlight strolls, until his female
companions began to get wise. The corporal is
now engaged in thinking up some new angles.
Australian diction is still giving trouble, as a
sergeant I know reported the other day. He was
sitting in a park with a bit of Down Under fluff.
"How's yer cobbers?" she whispered in his ear.
The sergeant thought for a minute. "They're
O.K.." he said carefully. "How's yours?" Her
cobbers, it turned out, were fine, too. When the
sergeant learned later that cobbers means "pals,"
he realized that he hadn't done badly in the
emergency.
A couple of BBC men from London were
around recently, and gazed open-mouthed while
an Arkansas doughboy rolled a cigarette. I have
never seen Englishmen so astonished. Amazement
gave way to attempts to emirate cigarette-roll-
ing, and the BBC boys used up a whole bag of
tobacco in their efforts. They succeec'ed in pro-
ducing only flat, tobaccoless smokes. The Aussies,
incidentally, have their own peculiar method of
rolling their own. They place a small pinch of
burley in the palm of one hand, cup the other
over it, and roll their palms together. The next
step is to put the tobacco in the paper; then both
edges of the paper are pushed together, the ends
are tapered, and the entire thing is thoroughly
wet in the process of sealing. They lack the Ar-
kansas finesse, but make up for it in enthusiasm.
The original Sad Sack Club, founded soon after
the first Yank landing in Australia, is still going
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IN ENGLAND, soldiers and sailors in London arrive at the American Red Cross
Washington Club in w h a t y o u might call style. Object: to have some f u n
OUR M E N REPORT O N THE S T A T t O F THE
WORLD O N M A H E R S R A N G I N G FROM
ROLLING BUTTS TO PANTHER SWEAT
strong, and members are still picking up T.S. the Japs. But things are going to be a little dif-
cards. Whenever someone pulls a boner—like the ferent now
sergeant who asked his colonel over the phone if Chinese money is maddening, and if an Ameri-
he were drunk—he puts a coin (anything from a can soldier judged his needs in terms of the Chi-
haypenny to a shilling) in the tin Sad Sack Bank nese dollar he would have to drag down about
and receives a card. The Club's theme song is an $1,000 a month to break even with life. A pound
Australian tune called "Bless 'Em All," one of meat—any meat—costs $15 Chinese, vegetables
chorus of which runs; average about $10 a pound, and a cake of laundry
There'll be no promotion
soap will set a clean-minded man back about
This side oj the ocean. $4.50. They used to have coffee shops here, where
So cheer up, my lad.s, coffee cost $150 a pound, and a single cup added
Bless 'em. all. up to $8, not counting your burned windpipe.
One shavetail, given his silver bars, was given a The government closed down the coffee shops,
beautiful, hand-painted discharge because he though, and for the most part Yanks drink water,
showed "symptoms of success.'' Oh, things are which it is wise to boil first.
very informal here. Drop over and see us some
time. However, when all's said and done. $1 Chinese
only comes to about 5o in American coin, so
C P L . CLAUDE R A M S E Y
YANK Field Correspondent
G.I. Joe
CHINA
China Is Like Arizona, But
It's A Long Time Between Drinks
CHUNGKING—The great gripe among Yanks
here is that Hollywood has played them false, as
far as the Chinese go. China is not composed of
eight parts dark nights and two parts opium
dens, nor are the Chinese a sombre, not to say
mysterious people. They're easygoing, and almost
painfully cheerful at times; as far as being able
to take it goes, they out-British the British.
Chungking has been bombed silly in the past.
Now, as the tables are being slowly turned, and
the bombers are carrying their loads in the oppo-
site direction, the Chinese are revealed to be an
unbelievably gay people, as unconcerned with
adversity as with the air around them.
The Air Force personnel here have discovered
that a good part of China looks like a good part
of Arizona. The really fascinating thing about
the country is the feeling of age. It's hard to de-
scribe, but even the dirt under your feet looks
antique, and a branch cut two hours before man-
ages, by some magic, to look to be two hundred
years old.
The Chinese are, of course, very glad to see us,
and sometimes children follow us around, mak-
ing buzzing sounds with their mouths and
spreading their arms like wings. Their perfor-
mance is a rather pitiful commentary on what "The Colonel requests you to drop it in quietly, piece
was, until lately, the Chinese sole defense against by piece—he's about to take a nap."
 IN AUSTRALIA, soup's on and these lads seem to he enjoying
meal: Or could it be the conversation and not the contents of those
things aren't so bad. It's the arithmetic that gets
one down.
A thing that's really hard to get is liquor. The
Army posts can serve you a nameless something
that seems to be a cross between gin, vodka, and
the sweat of a sparring panther, but it's no drink
for a mere man. The Chinese haven't been drink-
ing lately, at least around Chungking. The New
Life Movement, which is really hot here, looks
askance on tippling, and China was never noted
for Its drunkards, anyway.
They've been putting Air Force personnel up
in hotels, which they've built especially for said
purpose. One hotel, near Chungking, costs about
S500.000 Chinese a month to run (this breaks
down to about $25,000 in our money), not m-
cluding the cost of the original construction of
the place. Ice for the joint costs $70,000 Chinese
a month, and the gas to get the ice from Chung-
king permits some filling station men or others
to present a little morjthly bill of $28,000 Chinese.
Each Air Force man pays $85 Chinese a month
in the hotel, the sum including room, board, laun-
dry, barber, and a number of other things. This
figures out at about $4.25 Chinese a day, which
isn't bad at all. If the Yanks could live on the
By Sgt. Dave Breger
'And leave that potato on! We're tired of you always
puncturing these rubber boats."
their outdoor IN NEW GUINEA, these Yanks take time off from fighting the
messkits? to swim at Port Moresby. That wire fence is to keep sharks
food an average Chinese soldier eats, it would
save a lot of money, for the normal Chinese dog-
face can get along on a couple of bowls of rice
a day. This type of diet shouldn't happen to a
dogface, Chinese or otherwise.
Gin, vodka and panther sweat—ugh!
From a YANK Field Correspondent
ICfLAND
Free Laundry And Latest Movies
Moke Cold Iceland Army Hot-Spot
ICELAND—It was just a year ago this week
that the first AEF of the war staggered down the
gangplank into the friendly mud of Iceland—
knee-deep. It isn't quite true to say that it seems
like just a day, as the days around here some-
times run for months. It seems like a year—and
a solid, hard-working year at that.
When the first troops arrived there w'as nothing
on what was laughingly called the reservation.
The men coming off the first transport did not
parade down the Icelandic streets with beautiful
girls clinging to their full field packs. On-the con-
trary, they dumped their barracks bags into the
mud and marched right back to unload the boat.
During the next few months the Iceland AEF
was its own WPA project. Huts were built in the
wilderness, trees were transplanted, roads hewn.
Time and the elements were enemies, and winter
was a-comen in, but fast. When, in January, win-
ter struck, the base was finished; but by the time
winter had finished striking it had to be built all
over again. Storms had knocked the blazes out of
practically everything—uprooting huts, ground-
ing pow^ef lines, and sending the chill private
trembling to his stove.
Things are under control again today. The des-
olation was undesolated, and the troops are quite
comfy now. All the conveniences of home, within
reason, are available. The new huts have electric
lights, and the theaters have all the latest movies.
The most recent Tarzan picture, for instance, was
previewed here two months before it hit New
York.
During the winter the local female population
thawed out, paradoxically. There aren't many
girls in Iceland, but wooers and eye-casters make
the most of the limited supply. There is a very
nice standard of living, as the Army base stores
are exempted from federal taxes. Tobacco, toilet
articles, and candy are much cheaper than at
home, and any soldier can stuff himself with glu-
cose, chain-smoke, and wash his hands like mad
with the assurance that he need spend little on
these delights. It is a rare dogface who does not
find himself with a pocketful of auer or kroner,
which is the coin of the Icelandic realm.
The pay-oflf on Iceland, though, is that every-
one gets free laundry and dry-cleaning. The local
Jap
out.
QM has opened a large plant just for that pur-
pose, and everyone goes around looking rich and
spotless. Things have reached such a pitch that
some young gentlemen of the armed forces are
jioing around complaining that they're being
spoiled for civilian life.
F R O M Y A N K ' S ICELAND CORRESPONDENT
First Family Allowance Check Goes
To Brooklyn Pfc's 24 Year Old Wife
Those $22 parlays that get the folks back
home $50, began paying off last week.
They blew pay call for dependent wives
and, families of soldiers on Sept. 1, and be-
fore the last note died, 12,000 checks were in
the mail.
It took smce J u n e 24, when the law was
passed, to get the payroll machinery in shape.
But once the order came to start the checks
flying, the finance boys began cooking with a
blue flame. Checks covering allowances, re-
troactive to June 1, went to 36,000 depen-
dents during the first three days.
Recipient of check No. 1, under the Service
Men's Dependents Allowance Act, was sur-
prised Mrs. Thelma Greer, a 24-year-old
Brooklyn stenographer, whose husband, Mat-
thew, is a Pfc. stationed in Washington. She
received $150 and a note from Maj. Gen. H.
K. Loughry, Chief of Finance.
•'Dear Mrs. Greer," the General wrote.
•'You have the distinction of receiving the
first family allowance check under the Ser-
vice Men's Dependents Allowance Act of
June 23, 1942.
•'It is with gratification that check No. I,
dated Sept. 1, 1942, for $150 is enclosed."
Hereafter Mrs. Greer will receive $50 a
month, until her husband becomes a first
three grader. Allowances are available only
to dependents of buck sergeants and under.
* Checking applications for dependency pay-
ments has become a major industry in Wash-
ington. A new organization, known as the
Allowance and Allotment B r a n ^ of the
Adjutant General's Office, is handling about
10,000 a day in a temporary office constructed
solely to house the new bureau.
In the first pay group are all applications
processed up to Aug. 29. Estimates place this
total around 72,000. Those processed during
September will receive their first check
shortly after Oct. 1, next pay day for the
folks back home.
And here's a tip just in case you're think-
ing of taking' on a dependent in the near
future. The department finds that forms filled
out by the dependents generally contain a
snafu. On the other hand, you-guys should
sidle up to an expert when the going gets
tough in the question department.
Y A N K ' s WASHINGTON B U R E A U
PA6C 7
 Oals Behind
the Guns
A \en\pes^\iOMS 18 year o/d red head, who didn't want to
type or take dictation, paved the way and now a new kind
of gun moll is working for the Army in Maryland. She wears
greasy dungarees instead of printed chiffon and she tests
105's, 155's and anti-aircraft and anti-tank cannons on the
firing line instead of new recipes for chocolate creamed pie.

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUNDS. Md.—The whole thing starteci

with a roar in a remote corner of t h e O r d n a n c e D e p a r t m e n t ' s employ-
ment offices here one pleasant sunny m o r n i n g last April.
Roars don't usually attract much attention in t h e clash and clamor
of the busy Aberdeen Proving Grounds, w h e r e t h e buildings tremble all
These girls know a Gen. Lee tank better than latest fashions. day with t h e blasts of t h e 240's and 155's on t h e nearby experimental
liring ranges. Bui this roar was different—a sort of a terrifying contraltc>.
unmistakably feminine, something like that poet must have been trying
to describe when he wrote about t h e fury of a w o m a n scorned.
Finally, t h e employment director couldn't stand it any longer and
«»»* came out of his office to see w h o w a s being torn to pieces and fed to the
...*»*•• tigers. But he discovered that all t h e racket w a s coming from the d e -
termined lungs of a nice slim little red head w h o might have gotten lost
on her way to high school. A m e r e slip of a girl, t h e home-loving typ<\
but she didn't sound as though she was anxious to can some preserved
peaches or sew together a p a t c h - w o r k quilt at t h e present moment.
"I'm free, white and 18." she yelled, shaking her finger at t h e baffled
employment director. "And I can do a j o b any man can do. Back home in
Oswego, New York, they wanted to m a k e a secretary out of m e but I
want to work here instead."
"But we've got all t h e secretaries we need. Miss," the employment
director said.

Feminine muscles rentove tube from 37 mm. gun at Aberdeen. Mrs. Mcily Owens, 2% p^eils amnwinition to 90 mm. A.A. range.

PAGE S

But that's what Vm trying to tell you—I DON'T WANT TO BE A
SECRETARY." the £;irl howled. •Look. I'm not the iilamor girl type. I
want to work with my hands. Drive a truck or a tank or shoot a gun."
It so happened that the Army was tnymg with the idea of e x p e r i -
menting on the personnel problem and putting women into men's jobs
at the vast ordnanfp olant in Aberdeen. The Selective Service Act was
taking their civilian specialists and other men had drifted on to P h i l a -
delphia and Baltimore, w h e r e the rapidly growing shipyards w e r e offer-
ing skilled laborers Hollywood salaries.
.-\nd. so after her explosive interview, the red headed Arlene ( " J u s t
call me Mickey") Leppert from Oswego. N. Y., was given her chance.
They didn't know what to do with her when she showed up in the shop
w h e r e artillery gun mounts and field pieces are checked and repaired
but It didn't t a k e Mickey long to pick her spot. She noticed an idle crane.
The operator had just been drafted.
•I'd like to run that." she told the foreman.
It sounded p r e t t y screwy to the foreman but he thought things over
and decided that, at least, it might keep her otit from under people's
feet. After t h r e e and a half hours instruction, the foreman gave her the
job and after a few days the shop crew stopped looking startled when
they heard a lady's voice calling commands from the crane's cab window
as a gun mount or tube swung from its boom.
Mickey Paves the Way
Mickey's success on t h e crane opened the way for other women w o r k -
ers in almost every operation in the ground. Little girls like Hilda
Hamilton. 98 pounds, and Ruth Jones, w h o tips the beam at 90, includ-
ing high heels and a girdle, lug the tubes of 37's from their mounts to
the rack w h e r e the bores will be checked after test firing. Mrs. Chloe
Harrington, a 29-year-old mother, drives a light truck half filled with
ammunition. Miss Lillie Morgan, a 23-year-old brunette, left a Newark,
Del., beauty parlor to go to work on the 37 mm. range and Mrs, Ruby
Barnett. a g r a n d m o t h e r of 40, commutes every day from Delta, Pa., to
lire machine guns and small arms.
YANK The Army Nevfspaper • SEPTEMBER 16
Miss Helen Lindamood, 20, of Peach Bottom. Pa., (no r e m a r k s ,
please) never did a day's labor e.xcept housework for her lather until
she started firing M-1 rifles here and then there is Mrs. Elizabeth J o n e s
of Havre de Grace. Mrs. .Tones, a 200-Dound husky, tosses 65-pound
shells around as though they w e r e papier mache. Her husband is a
sailor in the merchant m a r i n e . ""He's taking this stuff over, " she says,
and I aim to see there's enough of it to keen him busy."
Three women who specialize in loading and firing 105's. Mrs. Mary
Fultz. Mrs. Velma Little and Miss Anita Bullock. Mrs. F\iltz. whose
picture you can see on our front cover this week giving a 50-calibre
machine gun hell, is a mother of two children from Lansdowne. Pa.
T h e r e are as many reasons for these women working around the
Proving Grounds as t h e r e are skirts in the shops and ranges. Mrs. Mary
Owens, 22 and very nice, is a typical case. She came here when her h u s -
band was assigned to the training center after being drafted out of
Rising Sun. Md. Many others are married to soldiers and civilian e m -
ployees on t h e Post. Some just frankly admit t h a t the War D e p a r t m e n t ' s
$2.5 or $30 per week is good dough.
They Like the Night Life
Then some of the younger are fascinated by the a t m o s p h e r e at
.\berdeen. although they'd never admit it. Most of t h e m come from small
towns that are not much more than wide places in the road and this
lively city, boomed overnight with soldiers and defense workers, p r e -
sents a nightly carnival aspect. When they go out it's usually with a
Proving Grounds soldier. They h a u n t the G.I. dances at the Post but
the single girls are not looking for p e r m a n e n t romance, least of all.
Mickey Leppert. the r e d - h e a d e d crane operator with the loud voice.
"What is your big ambition''" she was asked the other day. ""What is
your aim in life".'"
"I want to own a motorcycle." she said.
"How about a h u s b a n d ? " she was asked.
"WPH. I don't know." .she said. ""You can a l w a y s get rid of a m o t o r -
cvcle."
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#^W!t i^^ROM^IfOmi
only by years of effort and perse- The meanmg o! the Presideni'
PRESIDENT TALKS TO ARMY verance and unfaltering faith.'" words was plain to the puddier whn
helped Bethlehem Steel break the
The thing was basic. It was in the
Tells Men in Uniform People a t Home daily life, the day of work and eat world's record fiar the production of
and sleep. The President put it into pig iron this week. It made sense to
Won't Let Them Down After This W a r Is Over words, but the people lived it. The the welder whose sweat and skil
scholars talked of ideals: the farmer were part of the world's record the
This week, as the summer drew to a close, a busy man in Washington, talked of crops. Richmond, Cal., plant of Henry J.
D. C , came away from his desk to talk over a world-wide hookup. It was a- In upstate New York children and Kaiser set up for building a Liberty
hot day in Washington; cool in Boston, hot in Chicago and Atlanta, cold in city people and workers from the Ship in 24 days
Seattle. Kids were taking a last swim before going back to school. The hay South flocked to harvest a huge The people back home knew what
apple crop thai was threatening to the President meant. They showed
fever season was at its height. The country lay rich and green, awaiting spoil. They worked all day and at
autumn. it by giving a real meaning last week
night with floodlights, neighbor help- to Labor Da.y. A giant magnesium
Ordinarily, people would have been shall have won th<.' war. It will not ing neighbor. They did the same with plant started production, with an
too busy to listen to a radio speech, come because we wish very hard wheat throughout Oregon and Wash- output 4 times as great as all tha,
but this was different. This was that it would come. It will be made ington and Idaho, working hard and produced by this country in 1941.
President Roosevelt. He was address- possible only by bold vision, intelli- fast in the late summer sun. con- American shipyards pledged them-
ing a session of the International gent planning and hard work. It can- scious that there was a long way selves to launching 3 new ships a
Student Assembly and talking to the not be brought about overnight; but to go. day, after putting 68 new completed
boys fighting for democracy all over merchant ships into service last
the world. The people listened in. So month. Even the Navy had its own
did the Army. special Labor Day celebration—on
"What I am saying here in Wash- that one day the>' launched more
ington is being heard by several mil- than 150 new ships.
lion American soldiers, sailors and "There is still a handful of men
marines, not only within the con- and women," the President said, "in
tinental limits of the United States, the United States and elsewhere,
but in far distant points—in Central who mock and sneer at the Four
and South America, in the islands of Freedoms and the Atlantic Charter.
the Atlantic, in Britain and Ireland, They are few in number; but some
on the coasts of Africa, in Egypt, in of them have the financial power to
Iraq and Iran, in Russia, in India, in give our enemies the false impression
China, in Australia, in New Zealand, that they have a large following
in many islands of the Pacific and on among our citizenry. They play petty
the seas of all the world. There—in politics in a world crisis. They fiddle
all those places—are our fighting with many sour notes while civiliza-
men." tion bums. These puny prophets-
The familiar voice was vigorous; decry our determination to imple-
it cut sharply through the turmoil of ment our high concepts and sound
an American week. At the other end principles. And the words of these'
of the street, Congress was still hold- little men of little faith are quoted
ing the soldier vote bill after the with gleeful approval by the press
Senate had retained the provision and radio of our enemies."
abolishing the poll tax requirements The Bill of Rights protected most
for men in the service. Next door, on of the puny prophets, but those who
the steps of the Treasury Building, stepped out of line were smacked
another Hollywood bond drive had down fast. The Post Office Depart-
started with a dozen stars as sales- ment ordered the Boise Valley, Ida..
men. Hedy Lamarr sold $4,462,775 Herald to show cause why its mail-
worth of bonds at a Philadelphia ing privileges shouldn't be revoked
luncheon. A Middlewestern business for alleged publication of seditious
man said that if Hedy bought a stories. The jvernment planned im-
couple of thousand dollars worth of mediate prosecution of west-coast
bonds herself, he would kiss her. members of the Gerrnan-American
It was a normal week. Bund on charges that they wen?
"The better world for which you trained for espionage and sabotage
fight," the President said, "and for by Berlin agents. Herbert Karl Fried-
which some of you give your lives "A busy man in Washington, D. C. came away front his desk to talk rich Bahr, naturalized American citi-
—will not come merely because we over o world-wide hookup." zen, caught 30 years in the clink as

People
Back Home—
San Jose, Cal—A thief stole the
bridge at Alum Rock Park, hauling
it away in a truck, leaving a picnic
party stranded across the creek.
Washington, D. C . _ T h e Weather
Bureau has offered $1 per ounce for
feminine, blonde, undyed hair at
least 22 inches long, for use in
weather instruments.
Cincinnati, O. — For ripping a
United States flag from a standard
while intoxicated, Elijah Applegate
got 30 days in prison and a $150 fine
from a judge who added; "I'm sorry
this is the limit."
Los Angeles, Cal. _ Mrs. Jack D.
Hogg got a divorce from her cow-
boy husband on charges that he fed
a $10 bill to his horse after they had
an argument about finances.
l 0 Salle, III. — Dave Malone sent
his tallest corn stalk, 25 feet 3
inches, to Des Moines, Iowa, as an
entrant in the national tall corn
contest,
Cleveland, O. — After much
searching for some $2,000,000 em-
bezzled by the late Albert E. Atkin-
son, investment counselor, investi-
gators discovered he had lost it all
on the horses.
Lead, S. D. — Starting in a drug
store basement, a $1,000,000 fire
ruined an entire business block in
two hours.
Washington, D. C. — The Social
Security Board reported that of the
825,000 men over 65 now eligible for
old-age insurance benefits under the
Federal security program, 585,000
have deferred acceptance of the
pensions to stay at their jobs for the
duration. Most of the others are not
physically able to work.
l o s Angeles, Cal. — Until an im-
pudent FBI agent disregarded their
sign, "DEFENSE PLANT — KEEP
OUT.'' two counterfeiters worked
undisturbed.
Chicago, III—Joe Sperl, 63, who
has been arrested 46 times and has
spent 30 years in prison since 1907,
was in the clink again for piirse-
stealing.
Baltimore, Md— Hearing an air
raid alert over the radio, a diligent
air raid warden tied up traffic for
eight blocks, tried to herd 500 re-
bellious people into doorways and
vestibules before he discovered he
had been tuned in to a Washington
radio station.
Washington, D. C—The Office of
Price Administration announced that
distributors are permitted to add 50
cents a keg to the cost of cut nails
distributed to peanut growers.
Seattle, Wash.—Police arrested for
investigation a 52-year-old man who
wore an Army uniform, technical
sergeant's chevrons, nine hash
marks, the insignia of a cavalry regi-
ment, the insignia of the Alaska De-
fense Command, the Victory Medal
of the first World War, a British-
American war relief emblem. Eagle's
pin, service pin designating one son
in the service, an enameled Ameri-
can flag set with bits of colored glass
and a second class Boy Scout badge
pinned upside down. He also carried
a nickel-plated badge engraved with
his name and the words: "Mineral-
ogy, Geology. U. S. Army, National
Defense "
Mechanitsburg, Pa. — T h e w e l l -
dressed Oriental hauled off a bus
here by the FBI for questioning
turned out to be Wellington Koo, Jr.,
son of the Chinese Ambassador to
Great Britain.
New York, N. V, — Park Commis-
sioner Robert Moses got full author-
ity to tear down the Aquarium.
Louisville, Ky. — Two policemen,
working under short wave radio di-
rections from a doctor 27 miles away,
successfully delivered a seven-pound
boy.
Dayton, O.—Major Hal E. Roach,
50, who originated Our Gang com-
edies, married Miss Lucille Prin. 29,
of Los Angeles,
New York, N. Y.—In 35 years Phil-
ip Harper shucked millions of oy-
sters, always hoping the,next would
contain a pearl. It never did. So
when two boys offered him somo
pearls, he bought them. He's under
$25,000 bail charged with receiving
stolen property.
Aurora, ///. — When a mysterious
red parachute carrying a mysterious
box. landed in a farmer's field, Kane
County residents called police, who
in turn called the sheriff, who noti-
fied the FBI. The FBI found weather
instruments sent aloft by University
of,Chicago scientists.
New York, N. Y.—H. Ellsworth Ben-
nett, the world's oldest newsboy,
celebrated his 102nd birthday. Hr
used to be a sergeant in the Unio,n
Army Medical Corps.
Washington, D. C.—Charging mis-
representation in advertising, the
Federal Trade Commission com-

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:i Nazi .-.py. ".'he fiisl KuMei ii .un-si
"i a Jap enemv alien was niadt' a)
;.ake Placid. N. Y.. wht-n the F.B.I.
1 aii^lit a Jap who had come !o this
..ouiitr.v for the 1932 Olympic gaiiies
.iiui i(;mained for a little espionage.
•The old term, •Western civiliza-
tion.' no longer applies," the Presi-
• lent said. "World events and the
common needs of all humanity are
.joining the culture of Asia with the
culture of Europe and of the Ameri-
cas to form, for the first time, a real
world civilization . . . a world in
which men, women and children can
live in freedom and in equity and,
above all, without fear of the hor-
rors of war. For no soldiers or sailors,
in any of our forces today, would so
willingly endure the rigors of battle
if they thought that in another 20
years their own sons would be fight-
ing still another war on distant des-
erts or in far-away jungles or skies."
The words were proud and spoken
sUiwly. so everyone should hear. The
\te.xieans m Los Angeles heard them.
aid the Irish in Bo.ston. Thev reached
Herbert Bahr (right) was sentenced to
serve 30 years in prison as a Nazi spy.
olained that Lucky Strike cigarettes
are not toasted, that finger stains of
persons using Pal! Malls do not be-
come lighter or disappear connplete-
iy. etc. Similar charges were recent-
ly brought against manufacturers of
Philip Morris. Camel and Dunhill
cigarettes.
N. Plainfield, N. J.—Four selectees
reported missing by Board 2 turned
!.ip^-in the Army.
Los Angeles, Cal.—Only when his
S30.000 estate was being settled did
;t come out that the late Louis L.
Huot, an architect, had had two
.vives for 18 years. Said Wife No. 1;
•He was kind, unassuming, quiet,
considerate and a good provider."
Said Wife No. 2: •'He couldn't have
been a better husband. I trusted
Louis from here to Hades because
he was the most wonderful man I
ever met."
Detroit, Mich. — Henceforth Plum
Hollow caddies will get an addition-
al 25 cents for nine holes played in
the rain, or 50 cents for anything be-
tween 10 and 18 holes played in in-
clement weather.
Columbia, S. C. — Revenuers who
pounced upon a still near Barnwell
found it deserted, this weathei;beaten
sign nailed to a tree: "Due to the
sugar shortage, this still is for rent
for the duration of the war; we're
heading for the Army."
Milwaukee, Wis.—16-year-old Dar-
lene Johnson opened a small pack-
ANK The Army Newspaper ' SEPTEMBER 16
ne Chinese m .San Francisco ui\a uic
Hunkies from the uon range oi Min-
nesota, the Poles of Chicago, the
Italians of Utica. the Slovaks of
Pittsbuigh. The people on Leiio.x
.\ venue and Peachtree Street lis-
tened, to them alike: they reachc^d
the poor and the tinted, the rich and
the stammering, the speakers of
broken English. The people back
home listened as their President
spoke to the men overseas.
"You know why you are fighting.
You know that the road which led
you to the Solomon Islands, or to
the Red Sea, or to the coast of
France, is in fact an extension of
Main Street, and that when you fight
anywhere along that road, you are
fighting in the defense of your own
homes, your own free schools, your
own churches, your own ideals."
Boston Light was being extin-
guished after 227 yeais because of
the dimout. The 40 lions and tigers
of animal trainer Clyde Beatty were
eating horse meat because of the
high cost of living.
"You are doing first things first—
fighting to win this war. For you
know that should the war be lost, all Guns and other military equipment of World War I, formerly on exhibit at
our plans for the peace to follow the Smithsonian Institution, are converted into scrap at Washington, D. C.
would be meaningless. Victory is es-
sential; but victory i» not enough for
you—or for us. We must be sure that
when you have won victory, .you will
not have to tell your children that
.you fought in vain—that you were
betrayed. We must be sure that in
your homes there will not be want
—that in your schools onl.y the liv-
ing truth will be taught."
This week, the first checks went
out under the new dependenc,y al-
lotment bill.
^ This week, production was high
and getting higher: plenty of food
and a good harvest; the people work-
ing day and night, sacrificing time ofi
and vacations,
"This Government has accepted the
responsibility for seeing to it that,
wherever possible, work has been
provided for those who were willing
and able, but who could not find
work. That responsibility will con-
tinue after the war. And when you
come home, we do not propose to
involve you, as last time, in a domes-
tic economic mess of our own mak-
ing."
The people knew their responsi-
bility.
"We here at home are supremely
conscious of our obligations to you, Members of AWVS get a new war bond drive under way in New York
now and in the future."
by doing their worsf to ihe occupants of the Bondmobile, which was
The people understood.
to be pushed from the city to the brink—and over—Niagara Falls.
"We will not let you down."
age and discovered a dead pigeon's
head, a penciled note that threat-
ened: "This is what you're going to
get, you little moron." Making ele-
mentary deductions, police turned a
17-year-old girl over to juvenile au-
thorities—both girls had been going
with the same soldier.
Memphis, Tenn.—Air instructor John
Landstreet will be all right after he
rests his temporarily paralyzed eye
a few days. Landstreet stuck his
head out of the plane to see if traffic
was clear before landing; a rain-
drop almost knocked his eye out.
fulton, N. Y.—A bookie asked Civil-
ian Protection Officials for a full
schedule of prospective blackouts,
explaining that he took bets on the
day, hour and even minute when
maneuvers would begin.
Walla Walla, Wash.—Prowler cars
are now equipped with brooms and
dust pans, and police have been or-
dered to sweep up broken glass in
the streets to save tires.
fort Sill, Ok/a. — Sgt. Russell L,
Franklin, reception center inter-
viewer, took one look at the rookie
standing before him and began writ-
ing down the answers without ask-
ing any questions. The rookie was
his father.
Rahway, N. J.—James Russell Low-
ell, 43, of the Social Register and
Wall Street, and great-grandson of
the poet, has a $75-a-week job in a
war chemicals plant. "Still burning the midnight oil, eh, Aubrey?"
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 Nope, he's not in the cavalry. He's a Coast Guardsman of A soldier w i t h ambitions to be c
PAIR '* the newly-organized horse patrol, covering his beat along a GOING, GOING Under. The patient is v i e w i n g the
beach on our Atlantic seaboard. Coast Guard is on the job night and day. e th
has quite the professional air. Pipe the brush sticking in the hip p

F VKx ' --'"^

Sgt. Kenneth Elder In a jungle

DESTROYER. hails from a crack CHOICE. Jennie A . Milewski of W h i t m a n , Mass.,
w a s chosen Miss Camp Edwards in RIVATE LAUNDRY. bomber ere'
tank destroyer unit at Camp Robinson, Ark. beauty contest held by troops of the Eastern camp. clothes hang on their bomber in the rear. The
PAGC 17
 mmmmmmm

ler goes to work on a most willing subject in an American camp Down i P T A C l J A 0 | 4 " I ' m saving the sandwich for posterity," said Dick
t in a dishpon and seems not at all displeased. The artist w i t h the scissors nU I av-«\«j i U Spencer, Philadelphia shipfitter, after this scene. Hedy
. At any rate, a good time is being had by all, including the kibitzers. Lamarr, on w a r bond sale tour, had accepted his invitation to a bite of i t

ng on a South Pacific island, two members of a U. S. Actress Grace McDonald uses a I First Dependents Allowance
ng out their laundry over a fuel can washtub. Clean coin twisted in her stocking in- *• Act check goes to M r s .
f natives are slightly disinterested in the proceedings. stead of a garter—and banks a w a r bond there, too. Thelma M . Greer, 2 4 , of Brooklyn, N. Y.
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 ©• Army Newspaper • SEPTEMBER 16

THE POETS CORNERED

DEAR SGT. ROOT:
(In Re: "While Lies," YANK, July 22, 1942) Now these are the Laws of the
--•-
We took that trip t h r o u g h Port
01 Spain—
Admit it was a peach,
But have you been to Y o u - K n o w -
Where
Where the girls live on the beach? Alcohol serves in the compass:
These lovely maidens' skins are
white—
As white as white can be—•
As white as blackout in t h e
night—
As white as ebony.
But they are lovers of the sun,
And spend their idle hours
Roasting like a hot-cross bun
Out in t h e sandy bowers.
This turns them to a well-done Lest he figures thee out as a wise- Lest the rust of neglect be discov-
brown
That verges on the black.
It colors t h e m from golden crown
Down to their lowest back.
The soldier here's not color
blind-
No more than he is wealthy.
The major pi-oblem on his mind g^^^ „^.^,^^., ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^
Is • Why are the girls so h e a l t h y !
L ENVOI
He likes the whisky, likes the
beer.
He likes the tropic atmosphere.
But there's a constant growing
fear,
"Where are the snows of yester- If thou shoot off thy face in this
year'.'"
( a p t . V'ictor Strauss,
Caribbean Area
DE.AR YANK:
In "News from Home" in your
September 2 issue was an unbe-
lievable article. Miss Marilyn Sable
claimed that she "couldn't get a sol-
dier date to kiss her."
.\fter looking at her photograph I
think she must have worn u G.I.
gas mask and swung a mean bay-
onet, or she didn't try the right part
of the army.
Up here if a young lady with Miss
Sable's qualifications were to even
hint of such a desire she would be
overwhelmed. I, or any other mem-
ber of the Battery, would gladly u p -
hold the honor of the service by at-
tempting to satisfy any wish of Miss
Sable.
P F C L E W DODGE
Fort Getty, R. I.
DEAR YANK:
I read in your G.I. column of Au-
gust 26 about the youngest topkick
m the army, aged twenty. Our first
sergeant, Howard H. Harris of Long-
view, Texas, is also twenty, born
March 25. How does this compare
with your calculations?
CPL. HARRY A. SPECKMAN
58th School Squadron
Columbus Flying School,
Mississippi
(Did you see our last week's G.I.
column? It beats them both, with a
topkick aged 19.)
.«EET1HE"HlP.R>LKS',s,
Nor ail your piety'and wit Tech.—4 Dale F. Ramsey comes
Shall lure if back to cance/ half a line. from Long Beach, California, and
Omar K., Pfc. 1st Pyramidal Tent Co. wants to say hello
to a hometown
friend. The friend
is Pvt. Glen Bond,
THE LAWS OF THE SERVICE Dost thou spoiul of thy pay belore with an Engineer
payday. .outfit in Ireland.
I " I ' m hoping for
Service Let thy head, not thy pockets. la furlough that
And ever she m a k e t h it -plain revive. I will give me time
That .sergeant's or acting-jack's Seek not of the t w e n t y - p e r c e n t e r to get back to
chevrons Who will lend thee four dollars Long Beach," he
Are ditlicult things to maintain. ' for five. tells Pvt. Bond.
"If I get it and when I get there,
Do they give thee a task discon-
certing. I'll be sure to look up all your old
Without it the needle would gang. In the meantime, why not
cleave. With the crumbs of defeat on thy
plate. write a guy some n e w s ? "
But it s p m n e t h the head of the sol-
dier Remember that thirteen is often "Yanchie" Horvath is a merchiiint
Slapped right in the face with
x'\nd washes the stripes from his seaman whose experience includes
sleeve." an eight.
Nazi planes d i v -
ing over his ship.
Give heed to the voice of thy ser- Keep furbished thy gear and thy He w a n t s to send
geant. brightwork;
a message to t h r e e
But keep thee thine own wisdom Look well to the tools of thy friends who grew
mute. trade. up with him in
I B e t h l e h e m , Pa.
ered Arthur Raven.
guy
In thy rifle at sunset parade. Sigmund Crucei
And r u n n e t h thee up for a shoot.
and Harry H y -
Ye will find in the tome writ by Remember the one tainted apple. dusick were all
Webster Forget not the chain's weakest 'privates when
T h a t "can't" meanelh one " c a n - link. last heard of. Whatever they are
not do.' Be neither the one nor the other. now and w h e r e v e r they are. " Y a n -
^^ ^ Else repent of thy sins in the chie'' says, "Keep up the good
trooper clink. work. I'm doing my share keeping
per
Meanth rifles a r e slanting askew. 'em sailing with supplies that'll
H a r k well to these Laws of the help you do your job. "
Boast not of thy foriner employ- Service.
ment Graved deep by the saber of Cpl. Arthur Tanenbaum is from
With its income of ninety per Mars; Brooklyn. The .Army took him
week. Conform to the m a n d a t e s thus all the way to
blazoned Blithe. California,
fashion. And rise to thy place in the stars. but not too far to
(lunner Frank H. Rentfrow, forget t w o Brook-
T w e r e better thou never did
>Iarine Barracks, Quantico, Va. lyn mates. Pvt.
speak. I S a m A1 p e r in
who's in India and
[ Pvt, Mickey Sof-
DEAR YANK: fer w h o ' s p i l l
I have been trying to locate a
MAIL friend for about a year, and think
he may be in the army by this time.
Bill Anderson, if you read this
[ pushing with the
M e d i c s in H a -
waii. "Hello. S a m
CAUL drop me a line.
CPL. ROBERT J. IRION
Hq. Dels. D.E.M.L,, A.P.O. 935
and Mickey," Cpl. T, says. "Keep
hittin' in there like the good old
Brooklyn Dodgers. " Which is a
worthy fighting slogan.
Seattle, Washington
DEAR YANK:
I wonder if you could get this part DEAR YANK: Sgt. Tony Koko&zka is from W e b -
in your "Across the Seas" column After reading the latest about Mc- ster. Mass.. so he fits naturally into
to my cousin Jerome Stamer. Signal Turk, I can see that he is a perfect the 26th or Y a n -
Corps, somewhere over there: gentleman. Soon I expect him to kee Division. To
"Please write to my folks and send give credit to those classy frills, and
an old friend, Pfc.
them a forwarding address. I am a let us know that the fame of the Edward Naperat-
bombardier now, il things go well I'll Alexandria USO derives largely
ter, w h o used to
be over there with you pretty soon. from them and their friends. soldier with him
Save some for me." I haven't heard You tell McTurk the badge of a
from my cousin since he went over, in the 26th, Tony
fine gentleman is not worn on his sends his g r e e t -
and I would like to contact him. forehead, and I want him to straight-
AV C JEROME J. STAMER en this matter out so that all the ings. Ed's s u p -
Ellington Field world can see that he is a credit to posed to be some-
Staten Island. w h e r e in A u s t r a -
DEAR YANK: ex S/SGT. L . M C L . lia. "How's the
I assume that officers as well as Camp Gruber, Oklahoma jitterbugs down there, E d d y ? " he
enlisted men may subscribe to the asks. "Cuttin' as many rugs as you
"Yank." I read the last few numbers DEAR YANK: used to in the S t a t e s ? "
and enjoyed them thoroughly. The
paper has plenty of fight and punch, Why do people complain and crab
a delightful sense of humor, good about army life? I'll tell you why, Pvt. Leo Cohen is on leave from
coverage of national and foreign I volunteered and was placed in the the Station Hospital at Fort H a m -
news, and a profound understand- Medical Corps (the heaven for con- ilton and that is
ing of our military mission. These scientious objectors).
why he isn t w o r -
are qualities of our American troops As as American who is willing to
and are our guarantee of victory. serve his country at any cost I re- ried about ins-
Louis KROLL sent taking orders from "conscien- pection and h a s
Camp Upton tious objectors ' who seem to find it allowed his w h i s -
M Sure, YANK will lake officers' money. And pretty easy to get high ratings. kers to go their
Navy and Matine money, too. We're all on PvT. STEVE BAVUR m e r r y way. Leo
the same team. ' Fort Jackson, S. C. recently got a
birthday present
DEAR YANK: I)i;iit ^ \ \ k ; from his brother,
Just finished reading the lali'sl Mit'r KMiliiif; ill!' (ii>l i.ssiic. I tun Sgt. Fred Cohen,
issue of our magazine. I thoroughly tnirlifiilly >nN llial I » a s nut in die Icusl Medical Corps,
enjoyed everything in it including tli^iippoitilfti. T o lliosi" of IIS overseiis. it P u e r t o Rico. To Fred he sends
the poems. » i l l III' :i ('(iiitiiiiiiMl -oiircf of rtMiiint;
t h a n k s and adds, "Oh, yes, t h e
CPL. TYKUS R. MII.KY |ii<MMiri'. jiiil »(• only liii|it' the issue-
Alaska u i l l :iri'ivo t;isl and irri|ii(>iit.
family's in good health. We all
Why r^t send us a poem oi your own, r/Si.T. KKN UAKKIS
wish you luck. Maybe I'll be s e e -
Corporal? Iniiia ing you."

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(YANK's employment bureau w i l l gladly place free of charge the above gentlemen in these jobs)
A F e w Iteiiiiii That R e q u i r e ^ o Editorial Comment •
Well, Make Up Your Mind
After the Coral Sea fight, J a p
propagandists claimed the U. S.
had been "reduced to a fourth rate
naval power.''
After t h e first Solomons Islands
battle they claimed w e w e r e " r e -
duced to a t h i r d r a t e naval power."
After the second Solomons it
went like this; " F r o m the strategic
point of view our forces have com-
pletely crushed the hopes of the
enemy."
Now Captain Hideo Hiraide,
naval spokesman, comes up with:
"The enemy could not be com-
pletely annihilated," and warned
the folks back home to "expect a t -
tack from a superior force."
JOB/
It Was in the Bag
The Soviet News Agency report.-^
that the 342nd G e r m a n Infantry
Division on the Moscow front fled
with such haste that its c o m m a n -
der. General Hanns Rott. a b a n -
doned a bag containing his u n i -
form, decorations, and u n d e r w e a r .
Justice, Made to Order
Dr. Otto Thierack. new Nazi
Minister of Justice, has formally
announced the new G e r m a n con-
ception of justice. "Every judge is
at liberty to call on me in case he
thinks t h a t a law compels him to
render a j u d g m e n t not compatible
with real life," says Dr. Thierack.
"In such an emergency- it will be
my task to provide him with the
law he need.s.'
Mussolini Is No Menace
"Adolph Hitler would m a k e a
good screen villain," says Max
Factor. Jr.. Hollywood m a k e u p
specialist. "His eyes reflect evil to
a degree which cannot be duplicat-
ed either by tricks of acting or
m a k e u p . Hitler could out-Karloff
Karlofl. This is because Boris is
really a kindly fellow with no evil
in his eyes."
The same, however, does not go
for Musso. "Mussolini would be of
little value to the screen indus-
t r y , " Factor savs, sadly. "He could
only be cast as the menace in a
low-budget Western."
You See?
Field Marshal Wilhelm Sieg-
m u n d List, Nazi c o m m a n d e r in
chief in the Balkans, wrote Hitler
complaining about the conduct of
the w a r and w a r n i n g against a n -
other w i n t e r campaign in Russia,
according to Rome radio.
Now. according to Rome, Col.
Gen. Alexander Loche is Nazi
commander in chief in the Balkans.
That Explains It
In the Solomons fight. 700 J a p s
tried a raid and 670 w e r e killed.
Another bunch of 93 w e r e wiped
out to the last man. In neither case
w e r e wounded reported. T h e y
w e r e either dead or captured, and
mostly dead
Finally, a J a p m a r i n e who s u r -
rendered, m a d e this statement:
"I am not personally ashamed of
my actions, but according to the
naval code of J a p a n I am listed as
dead and my r e t u r n would d i s -
grace my family. I have two b r o t h -
ers in the n a v y and t w o in the
a r m y and I have disgraced them.
If I had had a gun I never would
have been taken alive."
YANK The Army
Finnish Finish
Finland is finally facing a winter
of starvation after 2 years of fight-
ing alongside of Hitler, A typical
Helsinki meal consists of a small
dish of herring, a small black p o -
tato, a small piece of carrot or c a b -
bage, and a small piece of meat—
if you're lucky.
The bill for this banquet comes
to $2.
Big Hearted Benito
Benito Mussolini is a m i s u n d e r -
stood philanthropist, according to
the Rome radio. It has been com-
plaining that "Americans are not
a w a r e of the daily acts of charity
performed by the Italian soldiers
in Greece."
Give Goering the Works
According to the Swiss weekly.
Die Nation, the largest industrial
organization in Europe today is the
H e r m a n n Goering Works. This cor-
poration is capitalized at 4 billion
marks and employs over 1 million
workers, voluntary and involun-
tary. Its practice is to follow the
German armies and its purpose is
to con.solidate captured industries
and dish out the dough to the right
places.
In America, the H e r m a n n Goer-
ing works is what will be dished
out to H e r m a n n when the United
Nations catch up to him.
Right-o.'
The British Admiralty sent out
requests for photographs and in-
formation on enemy territory which
British t r a v e l e r s might have picked
up on their journeys.
The Admiralty received 60,000
replies.
Newspaper • SEPTEMBER 16
Bored, So They Retreat
Alibi Tojo has come out with a n -
other famous explanation, this time
of the J a p s ' c u r r e n t retreat on the
Chekiang battle front before an
aroused Chinese a r m y .
"We are securing a more mili-
tarily advantageous position in
readiness for future action." he
reported. "And anyhow enemy ac-
tivity is very dull,"
Now What?
Hitler and Mussolini are sched-
uled to hold another of their get-
togethers in t h e n e a r future, says a
foreign source reported from L o n -
don.
"II Duce has some complaints to
m a k e , " the source added.
YANK is publiihed weekly by the Enlisted
M e n of the U. S. Army, and is for sole
o n l y to those in the Armed Services.
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S/Sgt. Harry Brown, Engr.; Pictures, Pvt. Leo Hofel
ler, A r m d . ; Feotures, S/Sgt. Douglas Borgstedt, SU;
Sports, Cpl. Joe McCarthy, FA.; Cartoonist, Sgt
Ralph Stein, Med.
Washington: S Sgt. Donald McGuIre, FA.
London: S/Sgt Robert Mooro, Inf
Australia; Sgt. E. J. Kohn, Jr.
Caribbeon: Cpl. Robert G. Ryan.
Marines; Plat. Sgt. Riley Aikman.
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YANK The Army Newspaper • SEPTEMBER
scTOECM *e m r s
Homeless on the Range
Nobody believed me when I wore
my Expert Rifleman badge. My three-
inch-thick glasses and my general air
(if incompetence sold me short. But
liere is how it happened.
The Tuesday we went out on the
• ange I was a sorry sight. That is to
.say I looked like myself. I was re-
covering from a very bad case of
three-day pass and every twitching
aerve in my body gave evidence that
I had a fine time in Punxatawney.
We marched four miles to the
range.
By the time we hit the range the
first sergeant was carrying me on his
back and promising me that I would
do nothing but score. This seemed
like a good idea to me, but not to The
Old Man. "Every man in the Com-
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16
MORNING SHAVE
£^T6reQR6-& ^AKgK.
pany shoots, " he said. The first ser-
geant dropped me and I made my
way to the firing line.
The first firing position was prone
and that fitted me like a glove. I lay
down and let my coach stuff a clip
into my trusty (not to mention rusty)
M-1. I pulled the trigger at intervals,
jerking, not squeezing, and watched
the dust rise in pathetic bursts be-
tween me and the target. But nobody
waved the red flag.
The second position was kneeling
and I just made it. My shooting was
a repetition of the first movement.
And, not changing for the better, 1
went through standing and two at-
tempts at rapid fire. The rapid fire
was very noisy and raised more
dust than any of the others.
Two sergeants picked me up and
carried me back to my scorer.
"How'm I doin'?" I asked carelessly.
"Expert," he replied.
It was then I noticed that The Old
Man, Capt. James Willoughby Her-
rington, had been firing in the posi-
tion next to me.
It was an easy thing to make a mis-
take and switch targets. Even for The
Old Man.
I am an Expert Rifleman. " I understand there's some difficulty
P\?T. AL HINE about bringing ftreatnts into the country."
The hell with the e n e m y - l o o k out for these crabs!'
 Hot Satnrday
OVER THE

Solomons
All the fighting in the Solomons wasn't done
by fleef units and ground forces. Once the
islands were taken the Japs sent over bombers
in the hope of ousting the Yanks. Marine pilots
had a lot to do, and sometimes they had a hot
time doing it. This is what happened to a
Marine fighter pilot on Saturday, August 6,
1942, a beautiful day above Guadalcanal,
though a very noisy one .

They ran into the Japanese bombers at 12,000

feet. There were 27 of them, two-motored jobs,
out to get the warships that lay off Guadalcanal.
Lt. James J. Southerland. leading a flight of Ma-
rine fighters, saw them coming out of the sun, in
three divisions of nine each, their wings gleam-
ing in the air.
"Too many of em." Southerland said over the
radio. "Time's short. Make three attacks on one
run."
The Marine flight went screaming down on its
target. Southerland let go at the first division, then
cut in on the second. He went up under one plane,
and as he did he saw the bomb bay explode.
He fired at a plane in the third division, and
smoke began to stream from one of its motors.
As he pulled away he noticed that his baggage
compartment was itself filled with smoke, "Been
hit," he said aloud.
Four Zeros had come up behmd him. They had
been high up, riding hard on the bombers, wait-
ing for just this opportunity. Southerland saw
them too late. He looked around, and there they
were—weaving through the sky. letting him havi
it, one at a timt.
They Even Smashed His Goggles
Southerland crouched low in his seat and tried
to watch behind him. He could tell when a Jap
was going to open fire by the way he jockeyed
his Zei'o. and by turning when the momem came
he avoided gettmg full bursts. But the Japs weic
slugging them in, just the same. Southerland took
a wound in his left arm, another in his right foot,
and another in his right leg. Hi.s eyebrow was
grazed and his goggie.s shot ofl'. He had pieces of
shrapnel in his leg and the back of his head.
When Southerland crossed over the northeast-
ern end of Guadalcanal, at 4.000 feet, his plane
resembled a sieve. The instrument pane! was
shot out; the whole upper surface of the left wing
was torn away. And then the plane caught fire.
Flames came up into the cockpit. Southerland's
wrists began to blister. It was time, he decided,
to go awa\- from there. Behind him the Zeros
waited. He started to climb out of the cockpit,
shielding his face from the wind-ianned tongues
of flame, only to discover that something was
holding him back. It wa.> his pistol. Fastened in
a holster on his belt, it had cnught m the lorn
fuselage
Southerland doesn't know jiow he did n. but
he ripped the heavy web belt apai't with his bare.
burned hands. When he went over the side he
was only 300 feet above the ground.
His ripcord came away in his hand, "My God, '
he thought, "the chute isn't going to open."
This Sock Came In Handy
He fumbled clumsily with tlu eora. Then, at
200 feet, his shoulders were jei'Red back convul-
sively and a great white billow of silk spread
ov(?r his head. The Japs still circled above him.
He spilled the air out of the chute to liasten his
fall. He expected the Japs to strafe him. The,\'
didn't. He came down fast, and just before lie
hit tile ground he saw his plane go into a wing-
over and crash. The Japs still circled, like vul-
tures. He crawled into the jungle to hide,
He had lost a good deal of blood. His right leg
was the worst, with a great hole in it. There was
no bandage, so he took off his sock and stuffed
it into the wound. It was a clean sock; he had
washed it himself the night before. Then he tied
his shoe ver\' tight to stop the bleeding.
Resting only a few^ minutes. Southerland took
ofi on foot throujgh the jungle. He was weak: the
jungle was thick and tough. Vines caught him
and roots tripped him. He didn't know where hi
was going. Several times he fell. It became harder
each time to gel up again.
After two hours he reached a clearing and saw
a Jap dag in the distance. There was no turning
back, so he ripped a branch from a tree and
limped toward the flag. There was no one home;
the Japs had taken'-off. He searched the camp for
food or bandages and found an old searchlight
with batteries. He look out the reflector to use as
a semaphore. The sun was still high, so he rested
and signalled with tile reflector
Opens Cocoanuts With Bare Honds
All afternoon he' sat with his back against a
tree, desperately trying to attract help. Once a
plane saw Ihi- flash and came down and waggled
it.s wings, Southerland waited all night, not dar-
ing to sleep, but no help came. The next morning
he started out again.
During the night he had washed out his wounds
with salt water, but the right leg was a dead
weight. He went on painfully, slower and slower.
He found a native canoe, cut a palm frond for a
paddle and started off. but the canoe was rotten.
It took in water faster than he could bail it out
with his shoe. He beached it and continued on
foot—one foot.
He had not eaten for more than a day. About
noon he found a cocoanut and broke it open with
his hands, with the same desperate strength he
had used to rip his web belt. Later he stumbled
on a clear stream and fell on his face before it,
drinking and plunging his head into the cool
water. Then he found oranges and ate them. His
wounds were no better, although most of the
bleeding had stopped. The wounds were crusted
and stiff and painful. He had blisters on his hands
from the burns.
He was almost gone when two natives saw him.
He was staggering from tree to tree then, head
up, fighting to keep his body on the move. The
natives came forward to help. Through a mist he
heard them say they were Catholics. He was too
A'cak to do anything but siriile.
He Gets Chicken A La Solomon
They took him to a native village, whe.re they
washed his wounds and got him clean clothes.
They gavf? him a little food and the next day
cooked him a chicken and some hard-boiled eggs.
. As soon as he was able to talk Southerland
tried to gel the natives to take ium back to camp,
but the sound of gunfire frightened them. Later
he saw an American ship touch the beach several
miles away. He begged the natives to take him
to the boat, assuring them that the American ship
wouldn't be there if the battle weren't won. He
was too weak to argue much; he could only point
and repeat a few words.
Al last the natives put him in a canoe and pad-
died toward the ship. On the way they passed
another J a p camp, where the flags were flying
although the Japs had fled, The flimsy canoe
finally landed where some Marines, dirty and
battle-stained, were dug in. The Marines carried
Southerland back to a field hospital.
He still had the sock he had stuffed Jn his leg.
 YANK The Army Newspaper • SEPTEMBER 16
glRICTIY(g
•aaeui**. ,y— • :J
OHicers in Atlantic City are in a sad state—they
can't take their wives dancing in night clubs without
feeling they're in a zoo. It seems the enlisted men
have devised a neat little scheme for keeping the
light spots to themselves, and so far it's working
nut tine. Whenever an otficer and his girl start to
dance, all the enlisted men simply quit the floor. This
leaves the officer feeling very conspicuous, and he
soon stops dancing and goes home.
Wanna Certificate?
vSoldiers who successfully complete one of the
Army's new correspondence courses can now get a
Certificate of Proficiency. This states that the en^-
roilee has demonstrated proficiency m w h a t e v e r
course fie has taken. The thing comes in a letter to
' h e C O . who makes the presentation, probably b e -
fore the whole company at inspection a r m s . Conceiv-
ably the Certificate may be exchanged for high
scnool or college credit or else merely used to i m -
press the rirst sergeant.
Novelette With Happy Ending
Pvt. George W. Koch and Pvt. F r a n k J. Koch are
l)rothers. Not only are they brothers; they are twins.
For 22 years they have,never been out of each other's
sight, except for practical reasons. As children they
wore identical sailor suits. They went to the same
high school and worked for the same concern in
Linden, N. J. Together they formed a potent battery
in the local softball league. F r a n k J. pitched: George
W. caught.
Three weeks ago they w e r e drafted. Not only w e r e
they drafted; for the first time in their life t h e y w e r e
separated. George W. was sent to C a m p G r u b e r ;
F r a n k J. went to Camp Stewart, 1,000 miles away.
They were both disconsolate. "They moped. They
were not good soldiers.
Quickly their sister intervened. One w e e k later
she received a letter from Major General Ulio, A d -
jutant General of the entire A r m y . The letter said
that Pvt. F r a n k J. Koch had been transferred to
Camp G r u b e r .
Now, all is well. Pvts. Koch and Koch mope no
more: model soldiers they. F r a n k J. is n o w acting
corporal. He is also pitching for the company softball
team. The catcher—George W.
Do You Write?
Tlie puhlishinq firm of Doubleday, Doran is olfer-
iiiq SI.000 m the form of a U. S. bond for the best
manuscript, fiction or non-fiction, submitted by any-
one in the U. S. Army, officers or privates, men or
women. Closing date o'f the contest is Sept. 1, 1943.
The bond vnll be an outright prize, with the usual
royalties in addition. The manuscript doesn't have
to be cornplet.e: 10,000 words will do if you send
along a synopsis of the rest. The subject is up to
Ijou; anything goes.
A Couple of Clothing Notes
No one can accuse our Army of putting . s q u a r e
pegs in round holes. Take t h e case of P v t . R a y -
iiiond E. Forbes. Pvt. Forbes is allergic to woolen
clothing. It chafes him and makes life miserable. At
Fort Bliss. Texas, w h e r e the private was stationed,
*he weather is often cold enough to necessitate
woolen clothing. Those days materially reduced Pvt.
Forbes' efficiency, as well as m a d e him u n h a p p y . The
Army's response to this problem was immediate and
practical. Pvt. Forbes is now stationed in t h e P a n a m a
Canal Zone, w h e r e the w e a t h e r is so balmy he can
wear cotton clothing all year round.
Suspenders instead of belts will be du jour for sol-
diers in cold climates, according to the latest QM
fashion note. This refers particularly to fighting men
who carry heavy loads, like p a r a c h u t e . Jungle and
mountain troops who have to stuff their pockets w i t h
all sorts of fiendish equipment. It seems that belts
would never stand the strain and would soon h a v e
the wearer's pants down around his ankles.
Heroism, Sunnyside Up
The feat of repairing the r e t r a c t a b l e landing gear
of a bomber in flight while hanging head down
through an open hatch has brought a citation for
valor to Sgt. Billy Gribble of the U S A A F in A u s t r a -
lia. It has also brought severe headaches and ofifers
from B a r n u m and Bailey, but Sgt. Gribble considers
them worth the trouble. If he h a d n ' t fixed the gear
t h e plane would h a v e had to m a k e a crash landing,
with a good chance of smashing t h e plane and its ^
occupants. Sgt. Gribble h u n g head down for an hour,
while two other members of the crew held him by
the legs.
PAGC I S
Gypsy Gyps Us
1 will r e m e m b e r last week for a
long time. Because last week a
bad thing happened to me. Gypsy
Rose Lee got herself up and m a r -
ried.
I can still look at the Police
Gazette clipping pasted to the top
of my foot locker, but it doesn't
^eem the same. For too long I and
ail my colleagues of the second
platoon h a v e looked upon G y p as
our own. It's a bitter thing to think
of her as a spouse.
This is sort of an open letter,
venting all m y a n t i - m a r i t a l spleen.
Maybe m a r r i a g e is all right for
some people, but for Gypsy, no.
There have been too m a n y guys
like me spending too m a n v nights
Mrs. Alexander Kirkland
in tents in Carolina and Georgia
and California and Maine and A r i -
zona, r e m e m b e r i n g the voice that
tenderly used to croon, "You don't
w a n t me to catch cold, do y o u ? "
I speak for m y friends in this.
Somehow w e shan't be able to look
at Gyp w i t h the same eyes. T h a t
c h a r m undiminished by previous
wedded bliss, has this time fle«d.
This is the s t r a w that broke the
G.I. camel's back.
Even if Gyp should t h r o w a
garter from the U.S.O. stage, a
garter t h a t would sniack us slap
in the kisser, it wouldn't seem the
same.
The old Gypsy is dead, along
with the old burlesque. "We might
just as well resign ourselves to
that. Now when we see h e r picture
in four colors on t h e cover of some
magazine we'll simply s h r u g t h a t
right shoulder ( t h e one without
any stripes on it) and say, "Oh,
yes. She's t h e author, isn't she?
The one w h o writes those d e t e c -
tive stories?"
—PVT. A L H I N E
Hot Autumn
This week, as the first symptoms of a cold a u t u m n
appeared in America, there was nothing to indicate,
on the surface, at least, that American jazz isn't still
as hot as ever.
In the swing capital. New York, Benny Goodman
was preparing to go back to his old winter stand at
the New Yorker. Glenn Miller was about to resume
his home-spot at the Pennsylvania. And both bands,
as in the past, w e r e scheduled to be relieved later on
in the season by Woody H e r m a n and J i m m y Dorsey.
"Vaughn Monroe will be back at the Commodore.
Harry J a m e s will dish it out at his old stomping-
ground, the Lincoln, while S a m m y Kaye will r e t u r n
in the late fall to the Essex House.
Old Masters in New Uniform
U n d e r n e a t h these familiar, reassuring signs, h o w -
ever, something was audibly wrong. Despite the
comforting presence of the same old names at the
same old places, ardent hep-cats were beginning to
sense that the old lift and drive w e r e getting a little
bit out of the groove.
Many of America's best jazzmen, it seems, h a v e
changed from tuxedoes to OD's. Today Uncle S a m
waves the stick, and h e has enough talent to m a k e
more top dancebands t h a n MCA ever d r e a m e d of.
Take the band Pvt. Marc Rosales has whipped t o -
gether at Ft. Dix. (All bandleaders keep little
switches near them so they can whip their bands t o -
gether.) The roster of this y a r d b i r d j a m - g a n g reads
like a mythical all-American outfit picked by Down-
beat. Enlisted men include George Koenig, sax
(Benny G o o d m a n ) ; Red Di Cataldo. t r u m p e t ( L a r r y
-Clinton); Carol Parvis, d r u m s (Joe V e n u t i ) ; Bob
Stuarsi. sax (Louis P r i m a ) ; Bob Jenny, trombone
(Claude T h o r n h i l l ) ; and Al Peinecke, a r r a n g e r (Dick
Stabile).
Pvt. Resales' band is typical of scores of other G.I,
swing bands t h a t have s p r u n g up recently e v e r y -
w h e r e from Australia to North Ireland.
Swing Goes Girlish
That leaders are frankly worried over the short-
age of manpower is indicated by a recent shift which
Woody Herman made in his orchestra. He assigned
his girl trumpet soloist, Billie Rogers, to a regular
spot in the brass section. "Who knows," Woody said,
"maybe I'll be leading an all-chick outfit before the
winter's over."
Benny Goodman also began to show signs of un-
easiness. Last week when he wired Bill Clifton,
pianist, to fly from Hollywood to join him on a job
in New York, and then, after hearing him play one
number, gave him two weeks' salary to hold him,
and sent him back to the coast.
In the Air
. J o e Marsala, whose agony pipe speaks with an
authentic jive accent, is m a k i n g another t r y with a
full-sized band. He has 16 pieces this time, w i t h
Eddie Condon and Max K a m i n s k y as s t a n d - o u t s . . . .
Pancho reported for his physical last Friday. . . .
Teddy Wilson's n e w album of characteristic solos
(all right, then, soli), recently released, is as w e l -
come as a 14-day furlough. . . . You'll h e a r it soon
on G.I.Jive, YANK's daily s h o r t w a v e jam session for
the A.E.F. . . . G.I.Jive, incidentally, is one of the
biggest s h o r t w a v e jobs ever u n d e r t a k e n . . . . It is
beamed on every continent. P r o g r a m s are regularly
highlighted by personal appearances of celebrated
jazz figures. X a v i e r Cugat, Richard Himber, T h e I n k
Spots, Skinnay Ennis, B a r r y Wood, Helen Forrest
( H a r r y J a m e s ' chirp) h a v e appeared recently. . . .
Later on you'll h e a r Bing Crosby, Connie Boswell,
etc. . . . As you know, G.LJive is the property of
the A.E.F. All p r o g r a m s are built on the requests
which you send in to YANK.
Out in Cleveland, Aud King's band is billed as the
"All Defense Orchestra." In addition to a 5-hour
nightly musical stint, each of the eight m e n has a
full time defense job. King himself is a m a r i n e elec-
trician, wires U. S. ships every day in the week. In
the evening, he changes from overalls to t u x and
wields the stick at the Aragon Ballroom. Bob Chester
filed a petition for b a n k r u p t c y , showing t h a t h e had
been doing a S23,000 business in reverse.
T h e top songs in America last week w e r e , "He
Wears A P a i r of SUver Wiifgs," "I Got A Gal In
Kalamazoo," "I Left My H e a r t At the Stage Door
Canteen," and "My Devotion." "Jingle J a n g l e J i n -
gle" was still around, but the composers continued
to r e m a i n in hiding.
^ — C P L . H , N , OLIPHANT
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YANK The Army Newspaper • SEPTEMBER 16

The Niagnificent
Amphibians
Scrawled by Sgt. Ralph Stein
Scriven by Cpl. Marion Hargrove

T HE United States Marine is a

military phenomenon wlio lool<s
like a soldier, talks like a sailor.
fights like a wildcat, and thinks like
a princess of the blood royal. Always
a modest fellow, the Marine d i - "The Marine thinks of his barracks as a ship.
scribes himself as "a soldier who can
read and write."
The United States Marine, as any to read a newspaper at a distance of he isn't on the second floor, but the as possible. When he leaves his bar-
United States Marine will tell you four blocks. This splendid spectacle second deck. And he didn't get there racks, he must pass the inpection of
with or without provocation, is the —this symphony of blues and white, by the stairs: he went up the ladder. two full-length mirrors just inside
best looking, toughest, most intelli- of reds and golds—is fading fast When a Marine is indoors or has the front door.
gent, most polished away, leaving the no hat on, he doesn't salute officers.
and most valuable Marine only the When he is outside and salutes, his The remainder of his leave must
m e m b e r of t h e splendor of his per- officer smiles very pleasantly and be used to best advantage in inform-
armed forces. When sonal beauty, his says "good morning" or some such ing his family, his girls, his old bos.<;.
he hears that one- proud physique and thing as that. This is because the and any other unprotected civilian
third of the nation his pretty phiz, to officer has a deep respect for the he might capture just what a great
is * poorly housed, l e n d magnificence Marine. "There is a member of the and wonderful thing the United
poorly clothed and to t h e A m e r i c a n most efficient fighting force in the States Marine Corps is and how
poorly educated, he scene. world,'" he says. lucky the civilian is to know some-
knows which third The Marine is ex- Although it is almost unbelievable, one who is actually in it.
it is. It is the Army, tremely proud that these glamor boys actually do KP. To make his spiel more effective
the Navy and the he is an amphibious They put on their herringbone twill a good Marine will always have
Coast Guard. creature. Get one coveralls with the Marine insignia about him a fresh clipping headed
A l t h o u g h from of them to take off and they work in the kitchen for a something like "Army Lieutenant
year to year the his shoes and what month at a time. Unlike the more Goes Over Hill to Join Marine
p l u m a g e of t h i s do you find? Web prosaic soldier, however, the Marine Corps" and at least one pad of note.*;
magnificent bird has feet. gets $5 a month to cover the cost of to prompt himself on just exactly
become less and less The Marine any dishes he might break. If he how the Marine Corps single-hand-
bright, even today "Gef one of fhem to take off thinks of his bar- breaks no dishes, the $5 is clear edly won every battle in every war
the sight of a full- his shoes, and what do you racks as a ship and profit and the United States Marines the U. S. has fought.
dress Marine is a find? Web feet." he speaks of it in win again. The Marine does not overlook the
sight to dazzle the nautical terms. A All is not peaches and cream in value of the Army, the Navy or the
eyes of all who behold it. In any wall is" a bulkhead; a floor is a the life of a Marine, though. He gets Coast Guard. He knows that they
shortage of electrical power, you deck, to be holystoned rather than less liberty than a soldier and a were organized and maintained to
could suspend him from a lamp- scrubbed. A latrine is a head. The three-day pass doesn't mean as much show, by contrast, the greatness, the
post and he would provide enough Marine never goes upstairs: he goes to him, since half that time must be wisdom, the courage and the beaut>
light for his duller looking compeers up topside. When he gets up topside spent in making himself as pretty of the United States Marines.

GOOCH'S MARINES 1779 1810 1834 1846 CIVIL WAR 1900

1740-42

"From year to year the plumage of this magnificent bird has become less and less bright."

PAGt 19
 YANK r h e Army Newspaper • SEPTEMBER 16

Mcfr^£
Mui/r %^^

A s THE curtain goes up

we find I'vt. Joe Mr-
Turk, Stalen I^^landV pas-
sion flower, inriulgiiijs; in u
hit of Kay Pee. Joe is al-
ways on Kay Pee — except
for the times he's latrine
orderly. McTurk is played
(like a low face-card) hy
Pvt. Robert C- MeOackeii
of Kort Belvoir, Va. Pic-
lures are hy Cpl. Pete Paris,
nil ex-corset salesinuii gone
wrong.
M c T U R K doesn't like Kay Pee. " I should be out in the a i r , " he says, " f i l l i n g me lungs w i t h
o i o n e . " Mac gets t i r e d of washing dishes. When he grows up and gets his o w n A r m y , he t h i n k s ,
he'll have them eat out of paper plates. Mac looks askance at the v a t beside h i m , which is
compounded of copper and very d i r t y . "Them crummy cooks," he croaks. "They should stew
m their o w n juice."

O N E O F T H E C O O K S is stewing in
his o w n juice. " I ' m s i c k / ' he cries. " O h ,
me stummick. That's what I get f o r e a t i n g
my o w n f o o d . " Another cook sympathizes.
"Go t r u n yourself d o w n on y o u r p a l l e t , "
he says. "I'll get a replacement."
O F A L L P E O P L E , the replacement
turns out t o be Mac. "Leave off these
p o t s , " the cook tells h i m . "Can y o u
w h i p u p a s t e w ? " Mac nods w i t h a loose
cigar. " S u r e , " he says. " W i t h a m u l l i g a n
I'm Q d r e a m b o y . Lead me to the k e t t l e . "
" I ' L L GIVE THESE BUMS some-
thing t o remember me b y , " Mac tells
himself. "Lessee what we got on the
shelves? Peaches, onions, p a p r i k a , cof-
fee, corn flakes, pertaters . . . A w , I'll
put it a l l i n . This'tl k i l l them g u y s . "
A S H E C U T S the onions, Mac muses
a b o u t the o l d clam bakes on Stolen Island,
a n d how instead af e a t i n g dessert y o u just
b r o k e someone's head. The A r m y is t o o
soft, he feels. Soldiers eat w i t h knives a n d
f o r k s , just l i k e snooty dames.

A GOOD M U L L I G A N , according to Mac,
needs a b i t of leather i n the pot t o g i v e i t t a n g .
His o w n b o o t , which he drafts f o r the purpose,
w i l l p r o b a b l y give it double t a n g , o r Tang Tang.
" I ' l l have ' e m a l l in sick b a y , " he mutters g a i l y .
" H O W ' S IT C O M I N G ? " the cook wants to k n o w . "It's
almost d o n e , " Mac tells h i m . " Y o u w a n t I should c a r r y i t t o the
t a b l e or let it w a l k over by i t s e l f ? " The cook sniffs the stew.
"Smells g o o d , " he says. " G i m m e a taste on me t o n g u e . " He's
a game g u y , t h a t cook.
"BEST D A M N STEW I EVER ET," the cook
says. " D e l i c i e u x , " chortles the mess sergeant. N o w
took a t McTurk. He's been p e r m o t e d . "The n e x t
m u l l i g a n I'll m a k e , " he says, " i s w h a t is k n o w n as
a H a v a n a M u l l i g a n . " He looks m e a n i n g l y a t his cigar.

PAGe 20

Swede Star Breaks
Mile Record Again
STOCKHOLM—Calling his shot,
just like Babe Rilth before his
famous World Series home run in
Chicago, the amazing Swedish run-
ner, Gunder Haegg, has raced the
fastest competitive mile in history.
The little slim fireman, who bears
a striking facial resemblance to an-
other great runner. Paavo Nurmi,
promised to smash the mile record
24 hours before he was scheduled to
appear in the Stockholm Stadium
Sept. 4 and a crowd of 27.000 turned
out to see if he could do it.
M o d S/ows W\m Down
Before the race, it rained. The
track turned into a soggy mess of
cinders and Haegg wanted to call it
off. But the officials held him to
his agreement so he went out and
ran the distance in 4:04.6. smashing
his own mark of 4:06.2. set last
July 2.
Haegg covered the first quarter in
58 seconds flat and did the half mile
in an even two minutes. Then the
muddy track and the humidity
slowed him down, although he man-
aged to sprint the final 110 yards
in the fantastic time of 16 seconds.
After the race, Haegg and his
father, who acts as his trainer, said
that a four minute mile would have
been a cinch except for the soggy
track.
Seven Records This Summer
This is the seventh world record
Haegg has broken in a little more
than two months. His 4:06.2 mile
of July 2 cracked Sidney Wooder-
son's accepted world mark of 4: 06.4.
The 4.05.4 mile that Glenn Cunning-
ham ran on the oversized and
springy Dartmouth indoor track
with pace-setters has never been
officially recognized.
Then Haegg broke the 2,000 meter
mark twice and set new records for
the 3,000 meters, 1,500 meters and
the two miles. That kind of running
Record Breaker Haegg
was so unprecedented in track his-
tory that many experts in other
parts of the world wondered if the
watches in Sweden were running on
standard time.
But for this latest effort, the
Swedes measured the track carefully
and used three timers, just to make
sure that Haegg wasn't spoofing.
Incidentally, Haegg is planning to
tour the U. S. next winter with Arne
Andersson, another Swede who ran
a 4:06.2 mile this summer.
YANK The hrmy Newspaper • SEPTEMBER 1 6
SPORT
NOTRE DAME ADOPTS A N OBSTACLE COURSE-Coach Frank Leahy is using the old Army methods to get his
Notre Dame football candidates in shape for the coming season. Probably the Irish are stealing G.I. stufF
because they are planning to beat West Point with its own tactics in N e w York, Nov. 7.
Navy Discovers One G. I. Football Stars Even Heavier
Umpire Who Can See
LOS ANGELES — Here's one
baseball umpire who has nothing
Than A Pack Feels After 15 Miles
wrong with his eyesight, although DENVER—Major Wallace Wade's Western Battalion of the Army
the fans probably claim other- A l l - S t a r football squad, now rolling e a s t w a r d to eat a few more p r o -
wise fessional clubs after devouring Jimm.v Conzelman's Chicago Cardinals
Bill Doran. arbitrator in Iht here Sept. C. was probably the most terrifying aggregation of muscle
Pacific Coast League, recently men seen in this Rocky Mountain
received a perfect vision rating countr.y since the days of the cov- of Minnesota, the right guard was
when he took a physical exam ered wagon.
for the Navy He's off for train- Lieut. Joe Routt of Texas A. & M.
When Major Wade's towering sol- (203) and the center was Pvt. Archie
ing at San Diego. diers thundered out on the Denver Kodros (205) of Michigan. Then, in
University Stadium turf before the backfield, there was Kimbrough
Lieutenant John Kimbrough led (210) at fullback and Don Scott
Schroeder Wins them to a 16 to 10 victory over the
Cardinals, the earth shook so threat-
(210) of Ohio State.
And that was nothing compared
eningly under their feet that the to some of the replacements Major
Tennis Championship 20.000 spectators expected the goal Wade rushed into the Army ranks
posts to topple down. while the game was in progress.
FOREST HILLS, N. Y. — A few Only three men on the starting Pvt. Tony Cemore, for instance,
days before he joined the Navy. Ted Army team were under 200 pounds the guard from Creighton who
Schroeder of Glendale, Cal., said —Lieut. Marion Pugh, quarterback kicked two field goals, weighs 220
farewell to tennis for the duration ' from Texas A. & M. and the New and Cpl. Jap Davis, Kimbrough's
bv winning the national singles title York Giants, who was listed at 165, understudy from Duke, tips the
from Frankie Parker. 8-6. 7-5. 3-6. Pvt. Emil Fritz, the Vanderbilt guard beam at that figure, too. Cpl. Joe
4-6. 6-2, in a championship tourna- (190) and Lieut, Herman Rohrig Manzo of Boston College Sugar
ment that wasn't much like those in (185). the back from Nebraska. Bowl fame who alternated at tackle
the good old days of Tilden. Vines, is a 225 pounder and among the
and Budge. Plenty of Poundage
other subs were Pvt. Nick Drahos of
Practically all the really outstand- Take a gander at the other heavy- Cornell (210), Sgt. Owen Goodnight
ing tennis players are now profes- weights: of Hardin-Simmons (200), Sgt. Den-
sionals, even Frank Kovacs. Bobby Ends were Pvt. Forest Ferguson nis Andricks of Texas A, & M. (211)
Riggs and Alice Marble. Mrs. Sarah (200) of Florida and Lieut. Bill and Lieut. John Meek of California
Palfrey Fabyan Cooke was out of Dawson (220) of Texas A. & M.. (220).
competition this season because of tackles Pvt. Park Mvers (230) of
an approaching happy event. Texas and Pvt. Win Pederson (215) Kimbrough Makes Great Run
So there wasn't much of an.vbody But despite all this weight, the
left except Schroeder. Parker. Lieut Army has a fast, smooth-functioning
Gardner Mullo.y and Francisco Se- Chickerneo And Blozis football machine. The blocking was
gura. the two-handed swinger from practically letter-perfect when Kim-
Ecuador. As a matter of fact, the
most popular player with the gallery Join N. Y. Giant Eleven
brough made a beautiful 95 yard run
down the field for a touchdown in
at Forest Hills this year was Jinx NEW YORK — John Chickerneo. the first period. Then, in the last
F a l k e n b e r g . who lasted until the blocking back for Marshall Goldberg three minutes, the former Texas
quarter finals of the mixed doubles in the famous Pitt "Dream Back- Aggie star smashed over with an-
with her brother, Tom. and the crowd field" a few years ago, and Al Blozis, other score to erase the Cardinal's
was more interested in Jinx herself the Georgetown shot putter and 10-9 lead.
than her tennis. tackle, are now wearing the uni- The Army gridiron stars are mak-
In the men's singles semi-finals. forms of Steve O w e n s New York ing a big hit with football followers
Schroeder defeated Mulloy and Par- Giants professional football team. on this cross-country tour for the
ker managed to survive by pounding The former Pitt star was drafted benefit of the relief fund. When
the ball at Segura's weak backhand. by the Giants three years ago but they're in action, a private can com-
Then Schroeder outvollied and out- took a job in South America instead mand an officer to block that wing-
served Parker in the final, which may of reporting. Two weeks ago he back or else but, off the field, strict
be best described by the attitude of turned up at an exhibition game in military discipline and etiquette are
the musicians of the Army band who Akron, O,, and asked if Owen want- observed within the squad.
were assigned to provide music for ed him this season. The words were
the patriotic program in connection hardly out of his mouth when the Practice sessions are called "Drills"
and each notice about the next
with the matches. They stood around Giants had him on the payroll,
during the match, asking the sports blackboard talk or the time to catch
Blozis has been accepted by the the train for the next game is typed
writers what were the latest scores
of the Dodger and Cardinal ball Navy and is awaiting a call to duty. in army form and signed "Wallace
In the meantime, he intends to keep Wade, Major, F.A., Detachment
games
in trim by playing with the Giants. Commander."
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YANK The A r m y N e w s p a p e r • SEPTEMBER 16

OLD BO-BO, THE ONE AND ONLY, Plenty of 20-Game

SPORTS:
BY CPL. JOE MCCARTHY
GOES BACK TO HIS REAL HOME Pitchers This Year
ST. LOUIS—There won't be any
After the Cardinals, Cubs and Pirates chopped cult to keep track of his various ports of call) when 30 game winners in the major league
the Dodger lead from seven and a half to three Earl Averill's line drive knocked him out of the pitching ranks this season but it
games on the recent Western trip, Leo Durocher pitcher's box and Billy Knickerbocker yelled d e - looks as though several boys will
sent the following message of e n c o u r a g e m e n t home risively from the Indian dugout. "That'll show you, come up and hit the jack pot for 20
Mr. Showboat!" victories, a total large enough to
to his faithful followers in Brooklyn: increase your next year's salary on
•'Don't w o r r y about us. We're all right and we'll Stung to the quick, the enraged Bo-Bo arose any ball club.
win the pennant for you again." from the grass and pitched his heart out for the Mort Cooper and Rookie Johnny
But Leo and his boss, L a r r y MacPhail, m u s t have Beazley of the Cardinals, Claude
been slightly uneasy about the approaching drive Passeau of the Cubs, Tex Hughson
down the stretch because the very n e x t day they of the Red Sox, Ernie Bonham of
took the desperate step of purchasing from the the Yankees, and Whitlow Wyatt of
Washington Senators the only m a n in organized the Dodgers are all within reaching
baseball who can hold his own w i t h either or both distance of that mark. There are a
of them conversationally, none other t h a n Buck few others, such as Johnny Vander
(Bo-Bo) Newsom, himself in person. Meer of the Reds, Spurgeon Chand-
ler of the Yankees, Curt Davis and
He's Always Been A Dodger Kirby Higbe of the Dodgers who may
This is not Bo-Bo's first a p p e a r a n c e as a Dodger. get under the wire before the shoot-
He laughed and talked in Brooklyn back in 1929 ing is over.
and 1930 u n d e r Uncle Wilbert Robinson, w h o cured Oay'is and Higbe Work Overtime
him of the habit of pitching u n d e r h a n d , and for- Cooper, Passeau and Hughson have
all won 18 as this is being written
ever afterwards as he wore the uniforms of Jersey and Beazley, Bonham and Wyatt
City, Macon, Little Rock, the Chicago Cubs, Albany, have 17 triumphs to their credit.
Los Angeles, the St. Louis Browns, Washington, Davis and Higbe, now doubling for
Red Sox, Browns again, Detroit, a n d Senators the Bums as relief pitchers as well
again, Bo-Bo always remained a Dodger in heart, When Newsom and Durocher talk fhings over, the noise as starters, have a good chance of
word, deed and action. is louder thart a battery of 240's. winning two or three a week for the
Practically e v e r y t h i n g Bo-Bo has ever done in rest of the stretch drive.
remainder of the afternoon. After the last out. he Cooper attributes his success this
baseball w a s accomplished "in t h e t r u e and i n i m i t - limped to the locker room and told the trainer,
able Brooklyn m a n n e r . Who else but a Dodger could season to his trick of changing shirts
"This leg is broken." And an examination revealed as he goes after each new victory.
pitch a no hitter for nine innings and t h e n lose that Bo-Bo h a d w o r k e d seven innings with a s h a t - This is the first time he has ever
the game, 2 to 1, on one hit in the t e n t h as he did tered knee cap.
for the Browns against the Red Sox in 1934? Or As a m a t t e r of fact, Bo-Bo is alv^fays breaking
get in wrong with t h e Red Sox m a n a g e m e n t for some sort of a limb or a joint. When the p e n n a n t - Yankees Cheerfully
Keeping six rabbits in his hotel room on a road trip? winning Dodgers purchased him from the seventh
Nobody but a Dodger could establish a modern place Senators last week, he immediately wired Waive Bye-Bye Bo-Bo
major league record for yielding t h e most earned Durocher, "Congratulations on buying p e n n a n t in-
r u n s (186 in 1938) and lead his league in games NEW YORK — T h e Yankees
surance. A m reporting in great shape, r a r i n ' to go." didn't hesitate a moment waiv-
lost (20 in 1934 and 18 in 1935), bases on balls is- ing on Louis (Bo-Bo) Newsom
sued (192 in 1938) and hits allowed (334 in 1938) He Belongs In Brooklyn so the Dodgers could purchase
—but still receive credit for t w o victories on one That telegram reminded baseball historians of the him from the Senators for the
day ( S e p t . 25, 1940) win 13 games in a row (1940), daily letters Bo-Bo w r o t e to Chicago in 1932 after stretch battle and the World
place secona in league strike-outs for five consecu- the Cubs drafted him from Little Rock. They all Series.
read like this: When President Ed Barrow
was asked why he didn't try to
"Dear Mr. Wrigley—I just w a n t to congratulate detain Newsom, his reply was
you on getting yrs. truly in the draft. I always simple:
w a n t e d to pitch for the Cubs. I am in perfect shape "That fellow would drive Man-
ready to pitch today and waiting for the word to go." ager Joe McCarthy crazy."
Bo-Bo composed those letters in his bed at H a r t s -
ville, S. C , using, as a writing desk, the cast of his won more than 13 games and he
broken leg. broke that jinx by changing from
When t h e leg mended, Bo-Bo accompanied his his own Number 13 shirt to Gus
uncle to a m u l e auction in Columbia w h e r e one of Mancuso's old Number 14 against the
the long-eared animals took a deep dislike to him Reds, Aug. 14.
five seasons (1937 to 1941) and equal a record b y and kicked him, breaking it again in exactly the The Old Numbers Game
fanning six Yankees in succession. same spot. The Cardinal star was rewarded
It w a s Bo-Bo, too, w h o almost did the u n b e - Bo-Bo attributes his frequent fractures to a with a shut-out and decided to play
lievable feat of winning t h r e e World Series games statuette on the m a n t l e of his Hartsville home. the numbers racket a little further.
Whenever one of his children or his wife, Lucille, Going after his 15th, he borrowed
for the Tigers in 1940 and just missed on t h e last shirt Number 15 from his catcher
day w h e n he held t h e Reds to t w o hits b u t lost happens to knock over the statuette, Bo-Bo b r e a k s and brother. Walker Cooper, and
2 to 1, w h e n Bruce Campbell stumbled r u n n i n g a leg. It has happened t h r e e times now but still he sure enough, stopped the Cubs, 5 to 1.
after J i m Ripple's game tying double. A f t e r w a r d s refuses to get rid of the statuette. He took a chance and wore 14 when
in the locker room he declared in the t r u e Dodger "It brings m e luck." he says. he went in against the Pirates as a
d r a m a t i c fashion, "I'll never pitch again." The Dodgers are said to have paid Clark Griffith relief hurler, Aug. 23, and was
$25,000 for Bo-Bo but even if he never wins a p e n - charged with his seventh defeat. So
The Suit Was Already Bought the next time out, he borrowed Ken
Then there was the time in 1938 w h e n Donald O'Dea's Number 16 and won a 14-
Barnes of the Browns, w h o happened to be his e m - inning thriller from the Dodgers.
ployer that month, offered Newsom a n e w suit if he Then he won his 17th wearing Num-
:^<^ , ber 17 and finally with Number IB
defeated the Indians in the opening game of the on his back, defeated Boston's
season at Cleveland. Bo-Bo did it easily, 6 to 2, Braves, 4 to 3.
and Barnes came around later w i t h the money in
his outstretched hand. s^.
"You're too late," Bo-Bo told him. "The bill for nant for them, it will be money well spent. They
just can't afford to let a character like t h a t play
Scorer Robs Hank Borowy,
the suit is already in your office. I ordered it before
w e left St. Louis." baseball for any other team. He belongs in Ebbets
Field.
Yankee Ace, of No-Hitter
And there was the day in Washington (it's diflfi-
NEW YORK—The official scorer
robbed Hank Borowy of the Yankees
of a no-hitter against the St. Louis
Cullenbine Gets Traded Into World Series Dough Outstanding Megro Stars Browns here last week.
As a matter of fact, everybody in
NEW YORK—Roy Cullenbine has been kicked upstairs from the Senators Yankee Stadium thought Borowy
to the New York Yankees and their World Series money to fill the gap left Will Get Cleveland Trial had hurled a hitless game when he
in the champions' outfield when Tom Henrich joined the Coast Guard. CLEVELAND — Three stars from struck out Walter Judnich for the
The powerful switch hitter, who the Buckeyes, local team in the Ne- final out in the ninth inning. But in
had been with the Tigers, Dodgers Ernie Dusak from Rochester to bol- gro American Baseball League, say the first inning, Harland Clift of the
and Browns before the Senators ac- ster their attack in the pennant drive they are going to get a try-out with Browns was given credit for a hit
quired him, says his wife in Detroit and the Pirates have acquired Bur- the Indians next spring. when Joe Gordon knocked down his
fainted when he phoned her the sur- gess Whitehead, veteran second base- drive behind second base and fum-
They are Manager PamelLWoods, bled the ball.
prising news. He will probably be man. Outfielder Jimmy Russell and
held in reserve while George Selkirk Pitcher Harry Shuman from Toronto. Outfielder Sammy Jethroe, now bat- But Borowy and almost every-
takes Henrich's starting right field The arrival of Whitehead reunites ting for .450, and Pitcher Eugene body else assumed that it was an
spot. him with his manager of the old St. Bremmer. They all played in the re- error and were dumbfounded when
The Cardinals have also brought Louis Gas House Gang, Frank Frisch. cent Negro East-West All-Star game. they discovered otherwise.

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 YANK The Army Newspaper • SEPTEMBER 1 6

Bums Plunge Brooklyn In Gloom

Flatbush Fans Get the Jitters
As Cards Creep Closer to Dodgers
NEW YORK—Charlie Ricciardi, o u r Brooklyn office boy w h o has
been boasting all s u m m e r long about Wyatt, Reiser, Medwick a n d Owen,
paused t h e other d a y before addressing another copy of YANK to some
A,P.O.. care of t h e San Francisco Postmaster, a n d extended his i n k -
stained palm.
"Shake hands," he said, in a very Charlie was disappointed in the
disgusted tone of voice, "with a St. Bums then but the next afternoon
Louis Cardinals rooter." when they went to Boston a n d
This significant incident took place couldn't do any better than split a
after the Dodgers dropped two out holiday doubleheader with the lowly
of three with their arch rivals, the Braves, he announced that he was all
Giants, on the Saturday and Sun- through with them.
day before Labor Day at the Polo Even Bo-Bo Newsom, who had shut
Grounds and slid down to a new low out the Reds in Cincinnati in his
in the National League standings, first appearance as a Dodger pitcher
only two and a half games ahead of a few days previously, couldn't help
the racing CardinaLs. Leo Durocher in his hour of need.
He was charged with the loss
in Boston, giving Ernie Lombard!
Kansas City Wins among others a couple of fat hits
that enabled the Old Schnozzola to
take the league batting lead away
Close Pennant Fight from Brooklyn's Pete Reiser.
The Cards h a p p e n e d to split
KANSAS CITY—Clinching the red a doubleheader in Pittsburgh, too,
hot American Association pennant the same day so the Bums still led by
race by a slim half game, the Kansas two and a half games after the holi-
City Blues are now seeking a vic- day week-end. But J,hat isn't enough.
N O WONDER THE CARDS ARE G A I N I N G - T h i s k i n d of b a s e b o l l is d r i v i n g tory in the play-offs with Milwau- As we go to press, it is anybody's
Flatbush rooters o u t o f t h e i r m i n d s . Here is Babe B a r n a , G i a n t o u t f i e l d e r kee, Columbus and Toledo that will race in the National League,
(23), t r a p p e d b e t w e e n t h i r d a n d h o m e b y three D o d g e r s , A r k y V a u g h n put them into the Little World Series.
a t t h e b a g , Catcher M i c k e y O w e n (10) a n d Pitcher Larry French (20) b u t The Blues squeezed into the front Phils M a y •Boost B r o o k l y n
of the tight league finish by taking a At this writing, the Dodgers have
still Barna m a n a g e d t o get back to t h e base s a f e l y , as t h e G i a n t s w a l - Labor Day decision from Milwaukee. 20 games to play and the Cardinals
l o p e d t h e Bums i n t h e Polo G r o u n d s . 9-2, after dropping both games of a have 19. Fortunately for Durocher,
double-header to the same team the seven of his 20 games are against the
day before. Phillies -who are worse than usual
M A J O R LEAGUE STANDINGS (AS OF SEPT. 8) Now they play Columbus, third this year.
( V A N K ' S b i g c i r c u l a t i o n forces if t o p r e l i a w e e k b e f o r e p u b l i c a t i o n d o t e a n d t h e r e f o r e readers i n place winners, in a four out of seven Popular sentiment all over the
t h e U . S . w i l l find t h e s e s t a n d i n g s o l d s t u f f . T h e y a r e p r i n t e d f o r m e n o v e r s e a s w h o n e v e r g e t d o i l y
• p o r t n e w s a n d ar^ g t o d t o s e e h o w t h e l e a g u e s o r e d o i n g , e v e n i f f i g u r e s a r e n o t u p t o t h e m i n u t e . 1
game series while the second and country is swinging behind the young
fourth place teams, Milwaukee and and colorful Cardinals, who weren't
NATIONAL LEAGUE AMERICAN LEAGUE Toledo, meet in a similar struggle. supposed to stand a chance a month
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play-ofT for the small World title. circles, they are regarded as just
Newark took the International plain Bums.
League pennant a week ago but the In the American League, every-
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Brooklyn 13 15 14 16 14 12 93 43 .684 — N e w Y o r k — 9 14 12 13 14 15 16 93 45 .674 — circuit fought it out right up to the games to go, the Yankees were eight
St. Louis . 14 13 12 13 14 14 91 46 .664 2', Boston 8 — 10 12 15 11 14 14 84 54 .609 9 Labor Day finale. Montreal managed and a half games ahead of the Red
St. L o u i s 6 10 — 13 10 12 10 13 74 65 .532 19'2
New York
Cincinnati
— 12 12 12 10 15 76 61 .555 171 J
8—10 7 15 14 66 70 .486 27 Cleveland 7 8 9 — 6 10 13 16 69 69 .500 24
to take the second position but the Sox, who can't seem to gain no mat-
Pittsburgh 7 6 — 11 12 13 62 70 .470 29 Detroit 7 6 11 12 — 11 8 12 67 72 .482 2812 Giant farm at Jersey City and the ter how many battles they win. The
Ctlicago 9 13 11 — 8 12 63 77 .450 32
7 5 6 11 — 14 55 81.404 38
Chicaao 6 7 5 8 9 — 12 12 59 72 .450 30' 2
W a s h ' t o n . 5 6 10 7 11 6 — 9 54 81 ,400 371 2
Syracuse Chiefs finished in a dead Red Sox figure they may cut down
Boston . .
Phila 3 6 5 7 8 — 3694 .277 54 Phila. 6 8 6 5 8 8 9 — 50 92 352 46 heat for third place., with a season the lead sometime in 1943, if they're
G a m e s l o s t 43 4« 61 70 70 77 81 94 G a m e s l o » t 4 5 54 6 5 ^ 9 72 72 81 92 — — average of .51(1. lucky.

PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE

M A J O R LEAGUE LEADERS (Sept. 8)
(As of Sept. 8) W. L. PC. W. L. PC.
Los Angeles 96 67 .589 ; S a n D i e g o . . . 79 83 .488
BAHING Sacramento 94 67 .584 O a k l a n d 75 87 .463
AMERICAN LEAGUE Seattle 89 72 .553 : H o l l y w o o d 70 93 .429
Player and Club G . A B . R. H. PC. San F r a n . 83 80 .509 ' P o r t l a n d 62 99 .385
Williams, Boston 136 478 122 168 .352
Pesky. Boston 133 566 93 184 .331
G o r d o n , N e w Y o r k . . 131 478 80 158 .331 TEXAS UAGUE
Spence. Washington 133 557 83 184 .330 FINAL STANDING OF THE CLUBS
Case. W a s h i n g t o n 109 441 84 140 .3"
NATIONAL LEAGUE Beaumont
W . L. PC
. i9 58 .60b . H o u s t o n
W . L. PC ,J
81 70 .536 y«i»
Player and Club G . A B . R. H. PC. Shreveport 83 61 .576 T u l s a 76 76
L o m b a r d ! . Boston . 93 265 26 87 .329 .503 W
F t . W o r t h . 84 68 .553 ; O k l a . C i t y . 58 95 .379 ^«
Reiser, B r o o k l y n 108 411 82 133 .324 S a n A n t o n i o 80 68 .541 . D a l l a s 48 104
Musial. St. Louis . 123 403 89 129 .320 .316 ^
Slaughter. St. Louis. 136 528 92 168 .318
M e d w i c k . B r o o k l y n . 131 511 63 15/ .307 SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION >
AMERICAN
HOME RUNS
NATIONAL
(Sept. 8) 1
W. L. PC. W. L. PC.
W i l l i a m s . R. S o x . . 3 0 i O t t . Giants. .26 Little R o c k 87 59 .596 Atlanta 76 77 .497
K e l l e r . Y a n k e e s . .25 { M i z e . G i a n t s . .24 Nasliville 85 66 .563 ! Memptiis 72 80 .474
Laabs. Browns....23 C a m i l l i . D o d g e r s . .22 B i r m ' t i a m , . 78 73 .517 i Chattanooga . 66 86 .434
RUNS BATTED IN N e w O r l e a n s 77 73 .513 Knoxville 61 88 .409
AMERICAN NATIONAL
W i l l i a m s . R. S o x 125 j M i z e , G i a n t s ..96 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
D i M a g g i o , Y a n k s 100 : M e d w i c k . D o d g e r s. . 9 3
FINAL STANDING OF THE CLUBS
K e l l e r . Y a n k e e s . .100 1 S l a u g h t e r , Cards ..91
C a m i l l i . D o d g e r s . . .91 W . L. PC W. L. PC.
Kansas City 84 69 .549 , L o u i s v i l l e 78 76 .506 Tear off a piece of this paper, this piece to be exact.
Milwaukee . 81 69 .540 | I n d i a n a p o l i s 76 78 .494
Columbus . 82 72 .532 '< M i n n e a p o l i s 76 78 .494
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Entire U M W Copyright, 1 9 4 1 by
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J e r s e y C i t y . 77 74 .510 B u f f a l o 73 80 .477
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BOSTON—Six hit pitching by Cpl.
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Acme; b o t t o m left center, PRO C a m p E d w a r d s .
College and Red Sox farm team Hurl-
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Paris. 2 1 , t o p right, W W ; left center, PA. 22, over Fort Terry (New York) and the
I N P . 2 3 , W W . 2 4 , U. S. Sig. Corps. baseball championship of the First
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From " S o m e w h e r e in Alaska"

come fhese fhree photo-
graphs s/rowing activities of
American troops stationed
at this northern front. In the
picture at the top of the
page, the men are pulling
and pushing a gun up a
mountain pass. In the photo
at left, it's time out for a
smoke after a bit of ma-
neuvering in a light tank. In
the photo at right, the men
are on the alert in their fox-
holes, an eye to the sky for
enemy planes. The Yanks
on duty up there have found
the Jap is not their only
problem. Another, quite as
difRcult, is the weather. Par-
ticularly have men who fly
our planes found this true.